Screengrab via Reddit According to sickestdancer98, the Unicode characters wreak havoc on the notification banner, which attempts to present the text and crashes in the process when it can’t ...

Apple did not explain what was causing the bug, but a Reddit user speculates that it’s related to how banner notifications process Unicode text. This is not the first time iOS has been ...

Word on the web is that Apple’s CoreText API can’t render a specific string of non-sensical characters, so whenever an incoming message containing the mysterious text is displayed as a banner ...

to automatically change display direction of your text. The generally accepted Unicode standard is used to encode, represent and process text in most of the world's languages. In addition to text ...

As it turns out, there was—and in some cases still is. The invisible characters, the result of a quirk in the Unicode text encoding standard, create an ideal covert channel that can make it ...

More specifically, the Unicode string in question is part of a much longer block of text that cannot be fully rendered in Notifications. When a text or iMessage containing the text string is ...

If you receive a strange text from someone that looks like Arabic script and then your iPhone crashes; you have been a victim of a newly discovered flaw in iOS Unicode. Reports indicate that when ...

The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium. While most users are ...