Hello, It seems strange that an accented character would cause a crash on startu= p. =20 It could be a memory leak problem; we have fixed a number of such bugs si= nce=20 April 2002. If possible, could you please update your CVS version of KSt= ars=20 and try it again, with the proper accented character replaced? thank you, Jason --=20 KStars: A K Desktop Planetarium http://edu.kde.org/kstars (Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/44/44629.html)