Foreign Symbols / Characters Crashing On MAC's only

[Misha]

I have a RadComboBox that fills with people’s names, and then a RadGridView that populates with more data about the person chosen.

There is a problem only on Mac’s with character encodings, such as: Saône (The symbol above the ‘o’ causes the application to freeze and crash when trying to bind the list to the grid view/combo box itemsource).

This problem only occurs when using the app on a Mac, all the symbols work on Windows.

Has anyone experienced this or know of a fix where I won't have to replace each symbol letter for a plain english one?

Thanks,
Misha

[hwsoderlund]

While it is not the same bug, what you are experiencing seems similar to the bug discussed here. There is also a thread on the Silverlight.net forum. The cause for that bug is culture-sensitive string comparison, which breaks on Mac. Perhaps there is some of that going on in your own code, or even internally in the Telerik combobox.

[Vlad]

Hello,

 Do you get the same problem with plain ListBox or this can be reproduced only with our components?

Best wishes,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[Misha]

Hello Vlad, 

I deployed an application and switched the RadComboBox to the plain SL combo box.

The same issue was being produced...

It slipped my mind that I used API calls to get the list of data, and the XML parser code uses the String.IndexOf function, therefore the post above solved the issue. I just needed to add the StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase parameter to the IndexOf function in my XML parsers.

Thank you,
Misha

[Misha]

Thank you very much, this solved the issue.