"Unicode of Death"

Christopher Fynn chris.fynn at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 12:22:33 CDT 2015


On 28 May 2015 at 20:23, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:
....

> "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.
>

Well isn't Apple's street address "Infinite Loop"?
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