From 0faa5567caf8487a7b08541abea98197775c0b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime Coste <mawww@kakoune.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 23:40:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix crash on non utf8 files trigering highlighting of
 backward ranges

Fixes #1274
---
 src/highlighters.cc | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/highlighters.cc b/src/highlighters.cc
index f3cc1baa..8fef89ca 100644
--- a/src/highlighters.cc
+++ b/src/highlighters.cc
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ void highlight_range(DisplayBuffer& display_buffer,
                      BufferCoord begin, BufferCoord end,
                      bool skip_replaced, T func)
 {
-    if (begin == end or end <= display_buffer.range().begin
+    // tolerate begin > end as that can be triggered by wrong encodngs
+    if (begin >= end or end <= display_buffer.range().begin
                      or begin >= display_buffer.range().end)
         return;