> > Ask Siri to "read unread messages." > Siri saves the day :).
↪ Shervin On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Alolita Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >> >> >
