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Crawl crashes when I modify mini_monsters.des
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Friday, 28th December 2018, 19:14by Skrybe
Any time I make the slightest change to dat/des/variable/mini_monsters.des in local Crawl, it causes Crawl to crash, and I have no idea why. I can literally open the file, save it without making any changes, and that's enough to make the game crash. I can edit other .des files without any problems, but mini_monsters is problematic for some reason. Can someone explain what the issue is?
Re: Crawl crashes when I modify mini_monsters.des
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Friday, 28th December 2018, 19:20by Siegurt
Try submitting a bug report on mantis:
https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/main_page.phpDevs are usually interested in fixing things that cause crashes.
Re: Crawl crashes when I modify mini_monsters.des
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Friday, 28th December 2018, 20:52by duvessa
What text editor are you using to edit it? Is it possible that you're accidentally saving it with the wrong encoding? For example, if you save it in UTF-16 it will crash.
Re: Crawl crashes when I modify mini_monsters.des
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Friday, 28th December 2018, 22:37by Skrybe
Thanks, it looks like that was the problem. Notepad was specifically trying to save mini_monsters as UTF-8, while it saved everything else as ANSI. That fixed it in local 0.22.1, though I have an old, modified version of 0.13.2 (my attempt at a branch long ago) that still crashes when mini_monsters is modified, even if I make sure the encoding isn't changed. I'm not really expecting tech support for that one, though.