diff -uNr kdelibs-3.0.2.orig/kate/part/katebuffer.cpp kdelibs-3.0.2/kate/part/katebuffer.cpp
--- kdelibs-3.0.2.orig/kate/part/katebuffer.cpp	2002-03-08 09:19:04.000000000 +1000
+++ kdelibs-3.0.2/kate/part/katebuffer.cpp	2002-07-08 06:34:12.000000000 +1000
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 
 // Somewhat smaller than 8192 so that it will still fit in 8192 after we add 
 // some overhead.
-#define AVG_BLOCK_SIZE		8000
+#define AVG_BLOCK_SIZE		7000
      
      
 /**     
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
    QByteArray result(size);     
    int bytesToRead = size;     
    int bytesRead = 0;     
+   const char *p;
+   
    while(bytesToRead)     
    {     
       int n = ::read(fd, result.data()+bytesRead, bytesToRead);     
@@ -82,6 +84,30 @@
       bytesRead += n;     
       bytesToRead -= n;     
    }     
+
+   // Limit reached. However we want to read until newline as chop
+   // to half line will corrupt any multibyte file.
+   //
+   // Point to last character
+   p = result.data() + bytesRead - 1;
+   while(*p != '\n')
+   {
+      //resize the array before read fd 
+      result.resize(bytesRead+1); 
+      int n = ::read(fd, result.data()+bytesRead, 1);
+      if (n == 0) break; // Done     
+      if ((n == -1) && (errno == EAGAIN))     
+         continue;     
+      if (n == -1)     
+      {     
+         // TODO: Do some error handling.     
+         break;     
+      }
+      // increment bytesRead and pointer
+      bytesRead += n;
+      p += n;
+   }
+   
    //kdDebug(13020)<<"Read = "<< bytesRead<<endl;     
    result.truncate(bytesRead);     
    return result;     
@@ -187,7 +213,8 @@
   for(int i = 0; i < blockRead; i++)
   {
      QByteArray currentBlock = readBlock(loader->fd, blockSize);
-     eof = ((int) currentBlock.size()) != blockSize;
+     // it is end of file if the current block size is < blockSize 
+     eof = ((int) currentBlock.size()) < blockSize;
      KateBufBlock *block = new KateBufBlock(state);
      m_blocks.insert(loader->blockNr++, block);
      m_loadedBlocks.append(block);