Bug Report: Chat message in Trade causing hard client crash

Happened 7 times, I'd bet it has to do with the user name. I'm on cachyOS playing through steam. Logs below, the chat message comes in and then the next line shows me reopening the client.

Once I checked the client logs, I tried leaving the channel and the crashes stopped.

League: Softcore Phrecia
Channel: Trade 820

I tried putting the user name into chat to ignore and the client crashed...


2026/02/06 10:13:11 2655012 cff945bb [INFO Client 308] $ำำx: WTS T17, boss ready to kill, 40c.
2026/02/06 10:13:25 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

2026/02/07 09:55:28 4170093 cff945bb [INFO Client 316] $ำำx: WTS T17 Idol slot, boss ready to kill, 50c.
2026/02/07 09:55:42 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

2026/02/07 21:43:39 46661763 cff945bb [INFO Client 312] $ำำx: WTS T17 Idol slot, boss ready to kill, 50c.
2026/02/07 21:46:02 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

2026/02/07 21:58:47 874700 cff945bb [INFO Client 320] $ำำx: WTS T17 Idol slot, boss ready to kill, 50c.
2026/02/07 22:49:00 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

2026/02/07 23:22:30 5897750 cff945bb [INFO Client 308] $ำำx: WTS T17 slot, boss ready to kill, 50c.
2026/02/07 23:44:23 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

2026/02/08 10:54:17 185282 cff945bb [INFO Client 320] $ำำx: WTS T17 slot, boss ready to kill, 50c.
2026/02/08 10:56:10 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

2026/02/08 10:58:01 408998 cff945bb [INFO Client 316] $ำำx: WTS T17 slot, boss ready to kill, 50c.
2026/02/08 10:59:08 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

Hey, still going on.

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2026/03/06 14:14:37 17950118 cffb06dd [INFO Client 312] #BleedSlamsDotCapButt: good names g2 i love you
2026/03/06 14:14:44 17956816 cffb06dd [INFO Client 312] #Johัn: ty
2026/03/06 14:14:55 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

I'm having the same issue on NixOS running through Steam (GE-Proton10-32). I didn't have any of these issues play in 3.27 (Keepers).

Here are the chat logs at the time of the crash on 3 separate occasions:

1:
2026/03/13 16:05:23 1142141 cffb06dd [INFO Client 324] #<LÕLxÐ> Experimental่่Skin: 4

2:
2026/03/13 16:12:09 1547900 cffb06dd [INFO Client 324] #<LÕLxÐ> Experimental่่Skin: that uhhh poison curse thing?

3:
2026/03/13 16:24:15 2274328 cffb06dd [INFO Client 324] #<PÉPEGA> cheesedaggernecro: Prismatic Jewel
2026/03/13 16:24:20 2279218 cffb06dd [INFO Client 324] #<LÕLxÐ> Experimental่่Skin: gl


It's because of the weird l character in this name: Experimental่่Skin

When I paste it in my game client, it crashes.

Same issue on my side. Archlinux. Here is chat log from multiple crashes over days.

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2026/03/11 14:11:21 14847148 cffb06dd [INFO Client 316] #<Zzzz> Slaye๋r: for foulborn ghostwrith you take the rarest outcome ?
2026/03/11 14:11:55 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****
2026/03/12 10:30:07 1251650 cffb06dd [INFO Client 312] #<Zzzz> Slaye๋r: how do you even get 86 body armour this league
2026/03/12 10:30:22 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****
2026/03/13 23:55:13 45810727 cffb06dd [INFO Client 316] #<Zzzz> Berse๋rker: gz
2026/03/13 23:55:29 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****
2026/03/13 23:57:27 45945159 cffb06dd [INFO Client 312] #<Zzzz> Berse๋rker: unstable
2026/03/13 23:57:39 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****

Ok, one guy on proton issues page found the workaround for the crash https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/58#issuecomment-4040356176.
Basically install protontricks and install additional fonts with `protontricks 238960 usp10 corefonts tahoma` and you should not have crashes anymore.

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Jajce#5756 wrote:

Ok, one guy on proton issues page found the workaround for the crash https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/58#issuecomment-4040356176.
Basically install protontricks and install additional fonts with `protontricks 238960 usp10 corefonts tahoma` and you should not have crashes anymore.

Just confirmed this worked great! Thank you so much!