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> I wish they'd just fix the bug where typing "~" crashes Terminal.app (depending on your keyboard language) :(

How did this bug survive the testing process?

Wait. I think I just answered my own question.

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It's quite terrible. I even reported it on bugreport.apple.com on 10.8.0, but neither 10.8.1 nor 10.8.2 fixed it.

I can't believe there's no-one at Apple using i18n keyboard layouts and Terminal.app.

It's not like typing "~" is an uncommon event on the command line....

Meanwhile, VLC fixed the same bug (typing ~ in the VLC.app UI textfields) in about 30 minutes.

Doesn't apply to US-International keyboards, I use "~" all the time.

Did you try some other i18n keyboard layouts, like Norwegian or Swedish?

Mine is Swedish, and I am unable to reproduce it.

It crashes with Swedish layout on 10.8.2 when I type Ctrl + ¨ on my computer. (Alt+~+space seems to work, though)

Doesn't crash my Terminal.app. I use a swedish keyboard. Perhaps you could create a new clean account on your computer and try it there? You can always delete the account afterwards.

Interesting. Must be some kind of pref setting or something that's surfacing the bug. Ugh, sounds hard to track down.

Yup, and that's why I suggests you create a new fresh user and try it there. If the bug doesn't show there it's something in your personal settings somewhere, if not it's in the system settings.

Bug number?

problem id 12024039

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