BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:03:03PM +0200, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
>Jeff Crowell, 23.04.2013 18:58:07:
>
>> 1) Copy http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f63b/index.htm
>> 2) paste into ZSH
>> 3) press enter
>>
>> Actual Results: MinTTY hangs and does not respond
>
>Similar happens when doing:
>
>cat /bin/gdb.exe
>
>for example. Something seems to overflow.

It's a long-standing problem for which there is no easy fix.

For now "Just don't do that".

cgf

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