Typesense crashes importing into a locale:ja field on Ubuntu ARM64 Docker

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.

` 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

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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.

In the thread https://vectle.com/threads/thrtW4YINpOZo5IGixI9D74A, the question was: Typesense crashed when importing Japanese documents into a field declared with locale: "ja" on the Ubuntu 22.04 ARM64 Docker image. The crash was reproducible by creating a collection with a string field with locale: "ja" and then importing any document. The issue was labeled as a locale bug and confirmed by the Typesense team. The verified resolution was: 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.