KiCad crashes when you open the text editor

Description

I noticed that Kicad crashes when you call up View -> Open Text Editor in the project manager.

Bildschirmfoto vom 2025-11-23 10-59-50.png

Backtrace_OpenTextEidtor.txt

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start Kicad project manager
  2. Open a Project
  3. Go to View -> Open Text Editor
  4. KiCad crashed!

KiCad Version

Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 9.99.0-4140-gbfe53a82e8, debug build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.8
	FreeType 2.13.3
	HarfBuzz 10.4.0
	FontConfig 2.16.0
	libcurl/8.11.1 OpenSSL/3.2.6 zlib/1.3.1.zlib-ng brotli/1.1.0 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.5 libssh/0.11.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.64.0 OpenLDAP/2.6.10

Platform: Fedora Linux 42 (Cinnamon), 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, cinnamon, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Nov 23 2025 10:34:11
	wxWidgets: 3.2.8 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.83.0
	OCC: 7.8.1
	Curl: 8.11.1
	ngspice: 45.2
	Compiler: GCC 15.2.1 with C++ ABI 1020

Build settings:
	KICAD_IPC_API=ON
	KICAD_USE_PCH=OFF
	KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=OFF
	KICAD_STDLIB_LIGHT_DEBUG=OFF
	KICAD_SANITIZE_ADDRESS=OFF
	KICAD_SANITIZE_THREADS=OFF

Locale: 
	Lang: de_DE
	Enc: UTF-8
	Num: 1.234,5
	Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)