I found an upstream bug report and solution for this. The change was committed on Oct 26, 2008.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #537911 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537911 ** Also affects: tasky via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537911 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: tasque (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- Tasque crashes when single apostrophe (') entered https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296557 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
