• nocturne@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    There was an iPhone user who got locked out of his device because the pin pad Unicode changed and one of the characters he used was no longer available. I forget what language he used, I want to say Serbian but am likely misremembering that.

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      5 days ago

      I’m going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an “s” with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn’t part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an “s” with a cedilla.

      I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.

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        5 days ago

        I think you are correct about it being Romanian, because I think it was an s character. I tried looking for the article so I was not going off memory.

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      5 days ago

      I have to assume it’s the cyrillic alphabet, surely apple isnt so stupid they manage to mess up the unicode of latin characters?

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        5 days ago

        surely apple isnt so stupid

        I’m just gonna stop you right there…

        It’s a marketing and design company with delusions of competence with regards to most other things it does.

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          As an IT guy who have sat through start up wizards on iOS thousands of times on every iPhone since the 5S, you are absolutely right, the last few iPhone models have really made the setup wizard a terrible and bloated experience.

          To whoever at Apple decided that the eSIM setup should come after the Apple ID screen, go take a barefoot walk on LEGO and think about what you did!