Trending video in the USA
⚫ How The Black Point Message Crashes Android Apps
“_If you touch the👇black point then your whatsapp will hang_”, says the message that’s being sent around, and it’s right. It’s a text rendering bug, the same as many others — which isn’t interesting. But the characters it’s using, Unicode RTL and LTR marks, are worth knowing about.
Thanks to everyone who suggested this subject!
The Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm:
I’m at
on Twitter at
on Facebook at
and on Snapchat and Instagram as tomscottgo
