[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Geany Locking up when typing or copying of text (#1540)

[elextr]

@hdaz000700 correct, it is almost certainly nothing to do with character problems, your screen shots show the file was loaded as UTF-8 in which case its is validated and you would get an error if its wasn't valid UTF-8.

One of the differences between Linux and Windows is the size of some integer data types which are 64 bits on Linux and 32 bits on windows, but none of your numbers above come close to the 2147483647 limit of a signed 32 bit number.  (BTW that limit means maximum file size of 2GB, so that would only use 4GB plus a bit, so your 16GB is largely unemployed :)

Since the main symptom is a scrambled display, a main suspicion is the Scintilla editing widget Geany uses or the GTK and Pango graphics and text display libraries that it uses.  Being native Linux libraries GTK and Pango have much more testing there than the Windows ports do.  

Scintilla has multiple backends, GTK, Windows and OSX but Geany uses the GTK one on all platforms.  If you, or somebody who can reproduce the problem, could also try the Scite editor on Windows since it uses Scintilla but with the Windows backend it would possibly separate the problem into Scintilla or GTK/Pango.





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