Bug#825932: freeorion: Segfault on entry of dead_macron

[Thanasis Kinias]

Hi Markus,

I’ve attached minimal-case log files (which, incidentally, are in
$HOME/.local/share/freeorion on my machine).

I don’t know how one might enter a deadkey macron in a “normal” keyboard
mapping (by “normal” I presume you mean U.S.?); I use a custom xmodmap
because I do a lot of multilingual work...

In the interest of being comprehensive, here’s what I see with the various
deadkeys:

– acute, grave, circumflex, cedilla, diaresis, tilde, and abovering work
(e.g., é, è, ê, ç, ö, ñ, å)
– micron, ogonek, caron, abovedot, and belowdot don’t cause a crash but do
nothing (e.g., ğ, ę, č, ė, ẹ just print g, e, c, e, e)
– doubleacute causes yet another behaviour:  when I type ˝ + o, instead of
ő I get nothing at all

Copy/paste is totally broken in Freeorion, so pasting in from character map
isn’t an option.  (That’s another bug, though.)

Best,
TK


On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 May 2016 10:16:26 -0400 Thanasis Kinias
> <kinias.t at husky.neu.edu> wrote:
> > Package: freeorion
> > Version: 0.4.5+git20160501-1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: l10n
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I’m seeing an odd crash resulting from typing a dead_macron (i.e.,
> > typing a macron deadkey).
> >
> > What I’m doing:  Try to rename a fleet after the star system
> ‘Fehū’.
> >
> > What happens:  As soon as I hit the macron deadkey, attempting to type
> > the ‘ū’, FreeOrion segfaults.  The following appears on the console:
> >
> > > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'utf8::invalid_utf8'
> > >   what():  Invalid UTF-8
> > > Aborted
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for the report. This looks like a bug in FreeOrion but I need
> at least your freeorion.log and freeoriond.log which are located in your
> ~/.freeorion directory before I can forward this issue upstream.
>
> At the moment I can't reproduce the bug because I don't know how to type
> such a character. How can I enter this character on a standard keyboard
> without special keys?
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus
>
>


-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Northeastern University
kinias.t at husky.neu.edu
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