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Mac and iOS Bug Crashes Apps With a Single Indian-Language Character (mashable.com)

Posted by msmash on from the watch-out dept.

A lone Indian-language character is crashing a number of messaging apps on iOS, users are reporting. The problem also extends to the Apple Watch and even Macs, all of which struggle to process the character specific to the Telugu language spoken in India.

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  1. huh by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 2, Funny

    And with all those Telugu-speaking programmers on staff too ... huh.

    1. Re:huh by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Funny
      Geez.......

      And I thought it was bad enough trying to understand them on support calls......

      ;)

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  2. Re:See! It just works! by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now, these kids today...one character.

    POOF!

    Note that this character was developed by the Indian military industry in a project with similar goals as the "Killer Joke": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The intent is that people reading the character die.

    Joke warfare is officially banned by the Geneva Convention, but India's archenemy Pakistan has been working on their own form of joke warfare involving a schoolgirl and a Nobel Peace Prize, and India felt threatened.

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  3. Fake news! by fluffernutter · · Score: 1, Funny

    My mac pro is awesome! Fake news! I don't believe this for a second! Whatthehell does this character look like?? There I found it in goog

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  4. Shady Indian Characters by IhateMonkeys · · Score: 1, Funny

    We had our apps crash once because of an Indian character. Pretty sure his name was "Steve" or Rajesh, not Telugu.

  5. Re: A UTF8 processing failure? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Funny

    We all need to adopt the Mojibake standard for non ASCII characters, like Slashdot.

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