Pasting a an odd CR+LF from website crashes Geany (possibly from an odd encoding)

[Poikilos]

• Geany 1.36
• en_US.UTF-8
• GTK 3.24.23
• GLib 2.64.6

Copying and pasting these four characters crashes Geany 1.36 consistently:

• Opening the file doesn't crash Geany, but pasting it does.

Steps to reproduce issue

1. Copy from Original source: Mailing address at bottom of https://videocityinc.com/edit/
   • optional: Paste into a new text file in nano to reproduce issue later (copy from there instead of step 1)
     • copy the whole thing from nano or copy just the 4 characters (using GHex)
2. Paste it into any open text file in Geany.

[b4n]

I can't reproduce in 1.37/current master. What you have is zero-width-space (U+200B) followed by a newline (U+0A). Nothing too weird here, and nothing that I would expect Geany to crash on.

@Poikilos do you have any plugins enabled? In any case, could you try with a clean configuration to see if you still reproduce (you can use geany -c /tmp/temp-conf)?

FWIW, here's the bytes:

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(yes, not much to see, but it's there)

[Poikilos]

geany -c /tmp/temp-conf

Yep, no crash. On my first try I found that which plugin to disable

• regular mode: prevent crash by disabling: spell check
  • also I have: Addons, File Browser, Save Actions
  • if I have spell check disabled, then restart, no crash; enable it, paste, instant crash
• using temp-conf: doesn't crash if spell check is enabled (or even if all of the above are enabled too)

My plugins are from Fedora 32:

$ dnf list installed | grep geany
geany.x86_64                                      1.36-3.fc32                            @updates                                       
geany-libgeany.x86_64                             1.36-3.fc32                            @updates                                       
geany-plugins-addons.x86_64                       1.36-4.fc32                            @updates                                       
geany-plugins-common.x86_64                       1.36-4.fc32                            @updates                                       
geany-plugins-spellcheck.x86_64                   1.36-4.fc32                            @updates

How could it not crash with the temp config even if I enable everything?

[b4n]

Weird indeed… may be the same as #1022?

[b4n]

…or maybe there's a specific spellcheck configuration option that triggers a crash maybe?

[Poikilos]

…or maybe there's a specific spellcheck configuration option that triggers a crash maybe?

Correct! I enable "Check spelling while typing" and then it crashes when I paste, even with a temp config. That makes sense.

[codebrainz]

Weird indeed… may be the same as #1022?

Was my first thought too.