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Re:Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to... by reaperducer on Thursday February 15, 2018 @12:44PM (#16385933)
I guess it depends on your definition of "widely spoken."

According to Wikipedia, the number of people speaking Telugu is 0.97% of the world. It's not even a statistical margin of error.

Still, how hard can it be to have a machine step through all of the possible combinations of every iOS-supported character set and jam them into iMessage to see if they're failsafe?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language

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Re:Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to... by lostmsu on Thursday February 15, 2018 @12:53PM (#16386009)
1%? Are you kidding? That's over 70 million. It's on the order of population of Germany, and 10 times more, than Swedes.
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Re:Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to... by bluntfang on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:20PM (#16386257)
i think the metric isn't the right one. 1% is a small user base, but of that 1% how many of them have access to iphones?
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