331453 – unicode nonprintable / zero width space completely bricks editors

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Bug 331453 - unicode nonprintable / zero width space completely bricks editors

Summary: unicode nonprintable / zero width space completely bricks editors

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	SWT (show other bugs)
Version:	3.6.1
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	3.7 M4
Assignee:	Felipe Heidrich
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Duplicates (2):	350988 358970 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2010-11-30 11:35 EST by Tobi Vollebregt
Modified:	2016-12-19 16:10 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that appears in the error log (5.11 KB, text/plain) 2010-11-30 11:38 EST, Tobi Vollebregt	no flags	Details
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Description Tobi Vollebregt

2010-11-30 11:35:57 EST

Build Identifier: M20100909-0800

Eclipse is completely bricked (rendering artifacts and/or hang and many errors in error log) by pasting the unicode character U+200B (zero width space) in a Java editor.

I will attach the stacktrace of the exception that is repeatedly put in the error log right after pasting this character in an Eclipse Java editor.

Curiously, with a plain text file only the exception is spammed in the error log, but Eclipse seems to continue running normally. Major problems occur in the Java editor (and other language-specific editors).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open eclipse & open a Java file
2. Paste the unicode character U+200B (zero width space) in the editor. Assuming bugzilla and the webserver support unicode properly I have included this invisible characters between the two x's: x&#8203;x
3. Observe that the error log is spammed full of ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException; rendering of the editor window breaks and often (when pasting multiple times) rendering of other parts of Eclipse break too and/or it hangs indefinitely.

Comment 1 Tobi Vollebregt

2010-11-30 11:38:35 EST

Created attachment 184146 [details]
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that appears in the error log

Comment 2 Tobi Vollebregt

2010-11-30 11:42:11 EST

Details about the character copied from KCharSelect

Character: Non-printable U+200B
Name: ZERO WIDTH SPACE
Annotations and Cross References
Notes:
commonly abbreviated ZWSP
this character is intended for invisible word separation and for line break control; it has no width, but its presence between two characters does not prevent increased letter spacing in justification
General Character Properties
Block: General Punctuation
Unicode category: Other, Format
Various Useful Representations
UTF-8: 0xE2 0x80 0x8B
UTF-16: 0x200B
C octal escaped UTF-8: \342\200\213
XML decimal entity: &#8203;

Comment 3 Felipe Heidrich

2010-12-02 15:25:39 EST

I suspect this was fixed in Bug 308329/Bug 295513
Can you please verify if this problem happens on HEAD ?

Comment 4 Felipe Heidrich

2010-12-02 15:46:18 EST

I see the problem:
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Display display = new Display();
		TextLayout layout = new TextLayout(display);
		layout.setText("a\u200B");
		layout.setAscent(20);
		layout.setDescent(6);
		layout.setSegments(new int[] {0, layout.getText().length()});
		layout.getBounds();
	}

Comment 5 Tobi Vollebregt

2010-12-03 07:08:39 EST

I tested with the nightly eclipse-SDK-N20101202-2000-linux-gtk; issue still occurs with it.

Build id: N20101202-2000

Comment 6 Felipe Heidrich

2010-12-06 10:54:02 EST

Fixed in HEAD 
Please verify the fix later this week using M4. Thank you.

Comment 7 Tobi Vollebregt

2010-12-20 05:15:56 EST

Verified; works fine in M4.

Comment 8 Felipe Heidrich

2011-07-05 10:45:32 EDT

*** Bug 350988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Eric Williams

2016-12-19 16:10:57 EST

*** Bug 358970 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***