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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. A UTF8 processing failure? by Viol8 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In 2018? Apples quality control really is on the slide.

    Either it can't process the utf8 code or its crashing when it doesn't have the font installed. Either way, these were solved problems 30 years ago, never mind now.

  2. ASCII ASCII ASCII by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If it's not encoded in ASCII, I won't bother reading it.

  3. Re:plaintext FTW, eh? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I say it's high time that any and all text-ish messaging systems require just plain ASCII characters

    Great idea. I totally agree that we should all adopt a single alphabet, but obviously the standard should be based on Chinese hanzi ideograms, not ASCII. Hanzi have a bigger user base, don't depend on a single spoken language, and are more compact since each character represents an entire syllable.

    If everyone is in agreement, we can start working on the unification immediately.