tag 908095 upstream thanks local10 - 07.09.18, 12:15: > Was able to open the problematic file by reconfiguring Kwrite and > changing the default encoding to UTF-8 and the fallback encoding to > UTF-16 (Kwrite keeps changing UTF-16 to ucs2 but whatever). > > That's a good news for me, of course, but still I feel Kwrite > shouldn't crash like that even if the default and fallback encoding > do not match the file's encoding. In Wheezy I sometimes would open a > binary file with Kwrite and I don't even remember when Kwrite crashed > like that, if it ever did.
This is an upstream issue. Please report with https://bugs.kde.org if not already done so and report the link to this bug report. By doing so you help our small Debian Qt/KDE team a lot. Bugs to Debian are not automatically forwarded to the upstream bug tracker. Before doing so please retest with Kate 18.08 which is available in Buster meanwhile. Actually, for smaller upstream issues I think its better to just report upstream. If there is an upstream patch depending on the severity of the issue and on planned release date of next Debian stable release, it can make sense to open a Debian bug report asking to include it. Thanks, -- Martin