If I understand correctly, he was using the character ・ Different languages have different symbols.
The same thing can be said about the Chinese equivalent 。 The characters ・and 。 are entirely different from the "." Not sure whether this needs to be fixed. If I am not completely misunderstanding something, he will also fail if he attempts to use that character (in place of ".") in programming languages (Java, C, ..). Regards, Pradeeban. On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Charles Givre <cgi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Drill Developers, > I wanted to share an interesting development that happened yesterday. I > was teaching a class at BlackHat, and we have a worksheet that includes a > Drill demonstration using PyDrill. Basically the students are asked to > execute a query in Drill using PyDrill then visualize the results. > > Anyway, a student from Japan tried this, and was getting all kinds of > crazy errors. So I sat down and worked with him to debug. It turns out > that the period on the Japanese keyboard, maps to a different unicode > character than on US keyboards, and hence the queries throw errors. I > discovered this because when I would cut/paste a query from a text file > that I wrote, the query executed, but if we typed one in, it broke. After > digging around a bit, I found that it was the period character. > > I’m not sure that this can or should be fixed, but I wanted to let people > know about this. > > Best, > — C -- Pradeeban Kathiravelu. Senior Systems Software Engineer, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Ph.D. Researcher, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing, INESC-ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Blog: [Llovizna] kkpradeeban.blogspot.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kpradeeban
