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Here's a link to the character if someone wants to test it themselves https://pastebin.com/9Tr8ytTr https://pastebin.com/9Tr8ytTr

RandallBrown 9y ago
Wow, that even crashes Safari on my Mac.
- deleted 9y ago
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- akvadrako 9y ago
  And if it get's in your history, it'll crash every time the character shows up again. I ended up having to delete the entry manually: $ sqlite3 ~/Library/Safari/History.db SQLite version 3.19.3 2017-06-27 16:40:08 Enter ".help" for usage hints. sqlite> delete from history_items where url = "https://pastebin.com/9Tr8ytTr";
  - talson 9y ago
    Thanks!
- arenaninja 9y ago
  Not crashing mine, using OSX 10.13.3, Safari 11.0.3
  - adpirz 9y ago
    Try copy and pasting the character in your address bar.
    - arenaninja 9y ago
      Ohhh nice. Yep, definitely crashed Safari on OSX 10.13.3 when the character is in the address bar. Firefox seems fine and is my daily driver, fortunately
      - MarkyC4 9y ago
        Firefox Developer Edition 59.0b9 here on latest High Sierra. Opening the link doesn't crash anything, but highlighting the paste did. I would have expected the tab at most to crash, but it took out the whole browser
- jumbopapa 9y ago
  Also crashed Chromium on my Mac.
kjullien 9y ago
also crashed firefox on mac and chrome somebody should just paste them here in the comments seeing the % of people here who run macos
- iaml 9y ago
  HN is no fun allowed zone - it strips all unicode.
  - viraptor 9y ago
    Not all Unicode. Ąėīû displays back to me as written.
  - brlewis 9y ago
    What about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388213 本気ですか？
angrygoat 9y ago
iTerm2 crashes if that character is echoed to the terminal. To reproduce, make a file containing the character and then `cat` it. Very nasty (reported upstream.)
tosz25 9y ago
Crashed Chrome as well.
- aaomidi 9y ago
  If if its the iPhone you're talking about. Chrome is a "wrapper" around Safari's web engine.
  - ProZsolt 9y ago
    It's crashes Chrome on MacOS
Jakob 9y ago
It doesn’t crash SublimeText and LibreOffice under macOS but seemingly all the other applications (Browsers, Terminal, TextEdit, …)
torstenvl 9y ago
Doesn't crash iOS 10.3 (although it doesn't seem to render correctly either) https://imgur.com/cglhVS5 https://imgur.com/cglhVS5 Would be really nice if Apple would stop treating its beta software as a final release.
- SalimoS 9y ago
  Do you mind trying to open the link again ?
  - torstenvl 9y ago
    Just did. Still no crash.
- nwithan8 9y ago
  Same over here. Didn't crash when emailed through Gmail to a Mac running an outdated version of OSX. But also didn't render correctly. Looks like it rendered as two characters instead on one
SalimoS 9y ago
That’s weird using safari on iOS 11.2.5 it didn’t crash the first time but now can’t open the pastbin link ! Edit: it’s random (it show in the 3D Touch to preview) https://imgur.com/a/xb5XV https://imgur.com/a/xb5XV
jcsnv 9y ago
I sent this link to my phone and the character is in the meta-title, which then crashed my phone. It works! Now how to fix it...
- ronnier 9y ago
  Option 1: * Have someone else send you a message * Click the notification and it'll open their message * Navigate back and delete the corrupting message Option 2: * Sign up for the ios beta program (free) https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ and install the latest beta which isn't impacted.
  - jcsnv 9y ago
    Thank you!! I tried deleting the conversations through the settings and no luck. Will try these now
    - sigotirandolas 9y ago
      For WhatsApp deleting the conversation through WhatsApp Web seemed to fix it.
  - hoki1 9y ago
    tried option 1, did not work. app crashes when navigating back :(
    - ronnier 9y ago
      make sure to get enough messages to push it out of the preview. I think that's how it worked for me anyways.
      - hoki1 9y ago
        will give it a shot. thanks
Corrado 9y ago
Original iPad here running iOS 9.3.5. Everything works as expected. I can't seem to crash anything with this string. Oh well, I guess that's the benefit of not upgrading, ever.

RandallBrown 9y ago

Wow, that even crashes Safari on my Mac.

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akvadrako 9y ago
And if it get's in your history, it'll crash every time the character shows up again. I ended up having to delete the entry manually: $ sqlite3 ~/Library/Safari/History.db SQLite version 3.19.3 2017-06-27 16:40:08 Enter ".help" for usage hints. sqlite> delete from history_items where url = "https://pastebin.com/9Tr8ytTr";
- talson 9y ago
  Thanks!
arenaninja 9y ago
Not crashing mine, using OSX 10.13.3, Safari 11.0.3
- adpirz 9y ago
  Try copy and pasting the character in your address bar.
  - arenaninja 9y ago
    Ohhh nice. Yep, definitely crashed Safari on OSX 10.13.3 when the character is in the address bar. Firefox seems fine and is my daily driver, fortunately
    - MarkyC4 9y ago
      Firefox Developer Edition 59.0b9 here on latest High Sierra. Opening the link doesn't crash anything, but highlighting the paste did. I would have expected the tab at most to crash, but it took out the whole browser
jumbopapa 9y ago
Also crashed Chromium on my Mac.

kjullien 9y ago

also crashed firefox on mac and chrome somebody should just paste them here in the comments seeing the % of people here who run macos

iaml 9y ago
HN is no fun allowed zone - it strips all unicode.
- viraptor 9y ago
  Not all Unicode. Ąėīû displays back to me as written.
- brlewis 9y ago
  What about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388213 本気ですか？

angrygoat 9y ago

iTerm2 crashes if that character is echoed to the terminal. To reproduce, make a file containing the character and then `cat` it. Very nasty (reported upstream.)

tosz25 9y ago

Crashed Chrome as well.

aaomidi 9y ago
If if its the iPhone you're talking about. Chrome is a "wrapper" around Safari's web engine.
- ProZsolt 9y ago
  It's crashes Chrome on MacOS

Jakob 9y ago

It doesn’t crash SublimeText and LibreOffice under macOS but seemingly all the other applications (Browsers, Terminal, TextEdit, …)

torstenvl 9y ago

Doesn't crash iOS 10.3 (although it doesn't seem to render correctly either) https://imgur.com/cglhVS5 https://imgur.com/cglhVS5 Would be really nice if Apple would stop treating its beta software as a final release.

SalimoS 9y ago
Do you mind trying to open the link again ?
- torstenvl 9y ago
  Just did. Still no crash.
nwithan8 9y ago
Same over here. Didn't crash when emailed through Gmail to a Mac running an outdated version of OSX. But also didn't render correctly. Looks like it rendered as two characters instead on one

SalimoS 9y ago

That’s weird using safari on iOS 11.2.5 it didn’t crash the first time but now can’t open the pastbin link ! Edit: it’s random (it show in the 3D Touch to preview) https://imgur.com/a/xb5XV https://imgur.com/a/xb5XV

jcsnv 9y ago

I sent this link to my phone and the character is in the meta-title, which then crashed my phone. It works! Now how to fix it...

ronnier 9y ago
Option 1: * Have someone else send you a message * Click the notification and it'll open their message * Navigate back and delete the corrupting message Option 2: * Sign up for the ios beta program (free) https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ and install the latest beta which isn't impacted.
- jcsnv 9y ago
  Thank you!! I tried deleting the conversations through the settings and no luck. Will try these now
  - sigotirandolas 9y ago
    For WhatsApp deleting the conversation through WhatsApp Web seemed to fix it.
- hoki1 9y ago
  tried option 1, did not work. app crashes when navigating back :(
  - ronnier 9y ago
    make sure to get enough messages to push it out of the preview. I think that's how it worked for me anyways.
    - hoki1 9y ago
      will give it a shot. thanks

Corrado 9y ago

Original iPad here running iOS 9.3.5. Everything works as expected. I can't seem to crash anything with this string. Oh well, I guess that's the benefit of not upgrading, ever.