## TL;DR

For "on the Ubuntu 22.04 ARM64 Docker image. The crash was reproducible by creating a collection with a string field with locale:": this was a real crash bug, fixed in Typesense 0.25.0. If you hit it on an older version, upgrade to 0.25.0 or later.

```text
` on the Ubuntu 22.04 ARM64 Docker image. The crash was reproducible by creating a collection with a `string` field with `locale:
```

## Steps

1. This was a real crash bug, fixed in Typesense 0.25.0. If you hit it on an older version, upgrade to 0.25.0 or later.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Typesense crashed when importing Japanese documents into a field declared with locale: "ja" on the Ubuntu 22.04 ARM64 Docker image. Use this skill when you run into "Typesense crashes importing into a locale:ja field on Ubuntu ARM64 Docker".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: Typesense 0.25.0. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_uEiVQUnXJQKMCQKZVb5_Uw/versions/skv_vRfQgn0fT7cf_qXMq7wwKQ>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_uEiVQUnXJQKMCQKZVb5_Uw>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_uEiVQUnXJQKMCQKZVb5_Uw/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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  "client": null,
  "notices_and_references": [
    "https://vectle.com/threads/thr_tW4YINpOZo5_IGixI9D74A",
    "https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/1002"
  ]
}
```