"Unicode of Death"

[Shervin Afshar]

I'm no iOS dev, but it seems like CoreText is trying[1] to truncate text
for SpringBoard (to shorten it with ellipses to fit the notification box)
and it crashes and burns with a segmentation fault[2]. FWIW, Reddit
abides[3][4] and reacts with "Unicode Suppressor"[5]...heh...as if!

[1]: http://pastebin.com/cQyQE7Ws
[2]:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12601286/i-am-getting-a-lot-of-sigsegv-exception-in-my-ios-app-crash-report-and-that-too
[3]:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_text_message/crm4h4x
[4]:
http://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/37eaxs/um_can_someone_explain_this_phenomenon/crm3adg
[5]: https://www.myrepospace.com/profile/effective/688319/Unicode_Suppresor

↪ Shervin

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar at gmail dot com> wrote:
>
> > Any good technical write up about this?
>
> Haven't seen one yet. Just a lot of "OMG, look at this" so far.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO ����
>
>
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