The “Chad” bug

Re:The “Chad” bug by packetized on Thursday December 31, 2015 @05:55AM (#10817127)

I wonder if this is related to i18n or country lookup. Chad is the only semi-common English-language name that's also a country name, that I can think of.

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Re:The “Chad” bug by benplumley on Thursday December 31, 2015 @06:33AM (#10817204)

Jordan, Georgia. I feel like if this were the cause then the bug would be a lot more common.

My guess is the dialler hashes some parts of the contact to get a UUID, but for this contact it happens to be outside the range the dialler can look at - perhaps off-by-one, where the dialler looks for UUIDs of 1 and above and this happens to hash to 0.

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Re:The “Chad” bug by stevoski on Thursday December 31, 2015 @09:08AM (#10817592)

My niece is called "Ireland".

Continents too: I met a girl called "Africa", and "Asia" is certainly used as a name.

However I don't ever expect to meet someone called "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"

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Re:The “Chad” bug by NLips on Thursday December 31, 2015 @07:17AM (#10817301)

There are also:

  India
  Georgia
  Jordan

I'd guess they are all as common or more common than Chad.

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