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Getting Unicode wrong can kill. http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellpho
by david-given 11y ago
Getting Unicode wrong can kill.
http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two...
> The use of "i" resulted in an SMS with a completely twisted meaning: instead of writing the word "sıkısınca" it looked like he wrote "sikisince." Ramazan wanted to write "You change the topic every time you run out of arguments" (sounds familiar enough) but what Emine read was, "You change the topic every time they are fucking you"...
- peterkelly 11y agoFrom the article, it sounds as if that wasn't the only factor...
- coldtea 11y agoBesides the obvious batshit craziness of those involved, that's not unique to unicode. After all, the turkish encoding wasn't ASCII in the DOS/Unix years but ISO 8859-9 (and various other, e.g. an IBM one etc).