If you press the up arrow in the chat bar, you can no longer type after the '/w Knightname' or '/g' pops up. It's really annoying having to type out a name over and over (or having to find their name in my list and clicking 'whisper') when I'm talking to more than one person. R still works, which is nice.
Chatting Using 'Up Arrow'

+1 .... I cannot use the up key to talk to ppl i have previously spoken to....
/t Alex hi
/t Bob hi
Hitting the up arrow key twice should let me talk to alex, it picks the command but i cant type anything.

The same thing has been happening to me too
But, I learned that if you press the left arrow until you pass the space and press space agin you can start typing

glad to see I'm not the only one.
ya at first I didn't know what was happening cause I type very fast and the crash happens when I'm typing and playing. So couldn't pin point it to the chat interface and "r" until today when I was in haven trying to talk to 2 friends.

Same here. If I press up, try and type to someone I was talking to previously, and then press backspace when I see no writing come up, it crashes.
Same things been happening to me, but if I try to backspace the game completely crashes... Once it even crashed from the regular chat itself too.