diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/TextLayout.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/TextLayout.java
index e365bc3..de7fb74 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/TextLayout.java
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/TextLayout.java
@@ -2774,7 +2774,13 @@
 		int /*long*/ metaFileDc = OS.CreateEnhMetaFile(hdc, null, null, null);
 		int /*long*/ oldMetaFont = OS.SelectObject(metaFileDc, hFont);
 		int flags = OS.SSA_METAFILE | OS.SSA_FALLBACK | OS.SSA_GLYPHS | OS.SSA_LINK;
-		if (OS.ScriptStringAnalyse(metaFileDc, chars, chars.length, 0, -1, flags, 0, null, null, 0, 0, 0, ssa) == OS.S_OK) {
+		/* 
+		 * Bug in Uniscribe. In some version of Uniscribe, ScriptStringAnalyse crashes 
+		 * when the character array is too long. The fix is to limit the size of character 
+		 * array to two. Note, limiting the array to only one character would cause surrogate  
+		 * pairs to stop working. 
+		 */ 
+		if (OS.ScriptStringAnalyse(metaFileDc, chars, Math.min(chars.length, 2), 0, -1, flags, 0, null, null, 0, 0, 0, ssa) == OS.S_OK) {
 			OS.ScriptStringOut(ssa, 0, 0, 0, null, 0, 0, false);
 			OS.ScriptStringFree(ssa);
 		}