From 3bfa3e98672015a88fe320492f4deb4dd986cc3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Urban Wallasch <urban.wallasch@freenet.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:05:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * Catch exception caused by malformed search term in result
 formatter.

---
 jiten-pai.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jiten-pai.py b/jiten-pai.py
index 753ba7a..d4eef5c 100755
--- a/jiten-pai.py
+++ b/jiten-pai.py
@@ -863,7 +863,10 @@ class jpMainWindow(QMainWindow):
             return
         # format result
         term = self.search_box.lineEdit().text()
-        re_term = re.compile(kata2hira(term), re.IGNORECASE)
+        try:
+            re_term = re.compile(kata2hira(term), re.IGNORECASE)
+        except:
+            re_term = re.compile('', re.IGNORECASE)
         nfmt = '<div style="font-family: %s; font-size: %dpt">' % (cfg['nfont'], cfg['nfont_sz'])
         lfmt = '<span style="font-family: %s; font-size: %dpt;">' % (cfg['lfont'], cfg['lfont_sz'])
         hlfmt = '<span style="color: %s;">' % cfg['hl_col']
-- 
2.30.2