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iPhone/iPad/Mac crash when displaying specific Arabic characters

Posted by: trogdor! ()

Date: September 02, 2013 01:16PM

Now that's a feature Android doesn't have.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/29/bug-in-apples-coretext-allows-specific-string-of-characters-to-crash-ios-6-os-x-10-8-apps/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-text-that-will-crash-almost-any-mac-iphone-or-ipad

#fail

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Re: iPhone/iPad/Mac crash when displaying specific Arabic characters

Posted by: eesh ()

Date: September 02, 2013 04:01PM

How many people with North American spec Apple products are typing in Arabic?

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Re: iPhone/iPad/Mac crash when displaying specific Arabic characters

Posted by: al Kabob ()

Date: September 02, 2013 07:17PM

eesh Wrote:
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> How many people with North American spec Apple
> products are typing in Arabic?

Don't have to. Anyone can send the string to them via SMS or just post it on a 'blog' like this.

Android has plenty of it's own #fail

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