Re: "Unicode of Death"

>
> Ask Siri to "read unread messages."
>

Siri saves the day :).

↪ Shervin

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Alolita Sharma <alolita.sharma_at_gmail.com>
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 <lang.support_at_gmail.com
> > 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 <billposer2_at_gmail.com> 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 <doug_at_ewellic.org> 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: acunningham_at_slv.vic.gov.au
>> lang.support_at_gmail.com
>>
>> http://www.openroad.net.au/
>> http://www.mylanguage.gov.au/
>> http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/
>>
>>
>
Received on Fri May 29 2015 - 11:18:26 CDT