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Apple Updates All of Its Operating Systems To Fix App-crashing Bug (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the fixing-things dept.

It took a few days, but Apple already has a fix out for a bug that caused crashes on each of its platforms. From a report: The company pushed new versions of iOS, macOS and watchOS to fix the issue, which was caused when someone pasted in or received a single Indian-language character in select communications apps -- most notably in iMessages, Safari and the app store. Using a specific character in the Telugu language native to India was enough to crash a variety of chat apps, including iMessage, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Gmail and Outlook, though Telegram and Skype were seemingly immune.

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  1. More Endians by cristiroma · · Score: 5, Funny

    It used to be just Little-Endian and Big-Endian, now it's also Single-Indian. Thanks Apple!

  2. Indian character probably coded by Indian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    That's what you get for hiring H1Bs