Seems like we may see a temporary fix for iOS. http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-issues-temporary-siri-workaround-iphone-crash-unicode-text-message-bug-2015-5
Best, Alolita On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Andrew Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > Not the first time unicode crashes things. There was the google chrome bug > on osx that crashed the tab for any syriac text. > > A. > > > On Friday, 29 May 2015, Bill Poser <[email protected]> wrote: > > No doubt the evil Unicode Consortium is in league with the Trilateral > Commission, the Elders of Zion,and the folks at NASA who faked the moon > landing.... :) > > > > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Unicode is in the news today as some folks with waaay too much time on > >> their hands have discovered a string consisting of Latin, Arabic, > >> Devanagari, and CJK characters that crashes Apple devices when it > >> appears as a pop-up message. > >> > >> Although most people seem to identify it correctly as a CoreText bug, > >> there are a handful, as you might expect, who attribute it to some shady > >> weirdness in Unicode itself. My favorite quote from a Reddit user was > >> this: > >> > >> "Every character you use has a unicode value which tells your phone what > >> to display. One of the unicode values is actually never-ending and so > >> when the phone tries to read it it goes into an infinite loop which > >> crashes it." > >> > >> I've read TUS Chapter 4 and UTR #23 and I still can't find the > >> "never-ending" Unicode property. > >> > >> Perhaps astonishingly to some, the string displays fine on all my > >> Windows devices. Not all apps get the directionality right, but no > >> crashes. > >> > >> -- > >> Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸 > >> > > > > > > -- > Andrew Cunningham > Project Manager, Research and Development > (Social and Digital Inclusion) > Public Libraries and Community Engagement > State Library of Victoria > 328 Swanston Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > Ph: +61-3-8664-7430 > Mobile: 0459 806 589 > Email: [email protected] > [email protected] > > http://www.openroad.net.au/ > http://www.mylanguage.gov.au/ > http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ > >
