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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
U+FDD0 did in fact kill at least one chat client at the time. Konversation in particular. (and presumably any other Qt-based chat clients using QTextDocument) | U+FDD0 did in fact kill at least one chat client at the time. Konversation in particular. (and presumably any other Qt-based chat clients using QTextDocument) | ||
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"basically u+fdd0 (eye of basilisk, the snake) is in a char range that's marked for interchange and illegal in utf-8" | "basically u+fdd0 (eye of basilisk, the snake) is in a char range that's marked for interchange and illegal in utf-8" | ||
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"but qt's utf-8 encoder let it through anyway" | "but qt's utf-8 encoder let it through anyway" | ||
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"but it just so happens that qt's qtextdocument uses u+fdd0 as text frame delimiter" | "but it just so happens that qt's qtextdocument uses u+fdd0 as text frame delimiter" | ||
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"so when you append it to a qtd, counters run wrong and eventually you crash" | "so when you append it to a qtd, counters run wrong and eventually you crash" | ||
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"d-bus closes the connection and crashes the client when it encounters illegal utf-8, and kde's notification system works through d-bus" | "d-bus closes the connection and crashes the client when it encounters illegal utf-8, and kde's notification system works through d-bus" | ||
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The problem was fixed after the xkcd "report" and Konversation now handles unicode normally. | The problem was fixed after the xkcd "report" and Konversation now handles unicode normally. | ||
