I just downloaded LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 and encounter a crash which occurs each time I try to insert an em dash. This is something I had'nt with previous versions of Writer. To reproduce: Just open Writer, and type Alt + 0151. Writer crashes. Open again Writer, don't recover the document (or it will crash again, need to kill the process), and copy paste an em dash like this one: — And Writer crashes again. Note that the en dash, Alt + 0150, does not lead to a crash. I try other values, like Alt + 0152 (don't know what it is, by the way), and this lead also to a crash. Maybe every character with alt code higher than 0150? FWI, em dash is used for dialog It may be replaced by quotation dash, with code Alt + 22, but leads to a crash also. I am using Windows 10.
Thank you for reporting the bug. To be certain the reported issue is not related to corruption in the user profile, could you please reset your Libreoffice profile ( https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile ) and re-test? I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the issue is still present
Thanks a lot for your reply. By deleting the user profile directory, I cannot see the issue anymore. Seems to be solved (even if I have no idea why the user profile was corrupted nor Writer crashed when the profile is corrupted).