id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
900	opening binary files may crash Padre	zenogantner		"When I open a binary file, say include/locale/de.mo, Padre crashes.

Malformed UTF-8 character (byte 0xfe) in pattern match (m//) at /mnt/data/src/padre/Padre/lib/Padre/MimeTypes.pm line 667.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x83, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at /mnt/data/src/padre/Padre/lib/Padre/MimeTypes.pm line 667.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x83, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at /mnt/data/src/padre/Padre/lib/Padre/MimeTypes.pm line 667.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xaf, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at /mnt/data/src/padre/Padre/lib/Padre/MimeTypes.pm line 667.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x87, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at /mnt/data/src/padre/Padre/lib/Padre/MimeTypes.pm line 667.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x88, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at /mnt/data/src/padre/Padre/lib/Padre/MimeTypes.pm line 667.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa0, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at /mnt/data/src/padre/Padre/lib/Padre/MimeTypes.pm line 667.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /mnt/data/src/padre/Padre/lib/Padre/MimeTypes.pm line 684.

Padre should catch such errors and handle them gracefully, e.g. by refusing to load the file (and explaining that to the user).
Gedit (the GNOME editor) does that.

Padre r11141
Wx Version=(0.9701) wxWidgets 2.8.10 unicode=(1)
v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi"	defect	closed	major		editor	trunk	fixed	crash