PCB Editor crash when using Microsoft Pinyin IME

[Bee]

Hello, everyone~

I’m using KiCad v6 in Chinese environment, windows 10 21h2. The Microsoft Pinyin IME is the default IME used by Windows 10 Chinese version which can input both English and Chinese. Either switch to English or Chinese, the PCB Editor will crash with high probability when press any key on the keyboard. There are many users meet this problem in some Chinese electronic BBS.

However, there are two ways to avoid this crash:

1. Don’t open PCB Eiditor. First open SCH Editor, do something and press keyboard at least once. Then work with PCB Editor. Everything will be OK.

2. Swith the Microsoft Pinyin IME to “Previous version” to maximum the compatibility, then everything will be OK.

Will this problem be sovled with the “latest version” and we can derectly work with PCB Editor?

[mf_ibfeew]

The problem is known: Microsoft Pinyin causes KiCad freezing (#9882) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
but not solved. You can follow the issue on gitlab and see if there are advances but seems not so easy.

[Bee]

All right. Thank you~ And I wish this problem could be solved soon.