[Mac] 8 characters can kill Mac programs

2013-02-06 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Hi Mac user,

I stumbled over this news article (sorry, German only):

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Acht-Zeichen-killen-Mac-Programme-1796645.html

That includes this link:

http://openradar.appspot.com/13128709
OSX apps (TextEdit) crashing in spell-checker (I think).

I don't know if AOO is depending on the spellchecking service from MacOS 
X but maybe someone could try if AOO is affected, too.


Thanks

Marcus


Re: [Mac] 8 characters can kill Mac programs

2013-02-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Marcus,

On 13-02-06, at 18:02 , Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote:

 Hi Mac user,
 
 I stumbled over this news article (sorry, German only):
 
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Acht-Zeichen-killen-Mac-Programme-1796645.html
 
 That includes this link:
 
 http://openradar.appspot.com/13128709
 OSX apps (TextEdit) crashing in spell-checker (I think).
 
 I don't know if AOO is depending on the spellchecking service from MacOS X 
 but maybe someone could try if AOO is affected, too.
 
 Thanks
 
 Marcus

Magic words will crash the lesser but AOO shrugs at magical cant. Tried it. No 
effect. Used English CA, UK, USA.

So then trotted out the quivering control group, but stopped after trying it 
on—and succeeding with—Just Notes. (FWIW, am using latest OS X and latest 
(OOo-dev) AOO for Mac OS X.)

Lesson: Use AOO.

Best and thanks, 
louis