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I need a function that will convert any string into unicode; that supports things like letters with accents and whatnot.<BR><BR>I might have my terminology wrong... this could be why my Google ...

A bug in Apple’s CoreText rendering engine in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight. The string of characters which can trigger the bug ...

A peculiar iOS bug apparently that allows pranksters to crash a victim's iPhone by sending a text message from their own iPhone containing what appears to be a single line of seemingly innocuous ...

A new Unicode text bug is being spread around today, popularised by a video by EverythingApplePro. It’s being called the ‘black dot’ bug because of its origins on Android as a bug relating to WhatsApp ...

Is there some trick to get translate to work right with unicode strings? I finally gave up in frustration and just used replace as well - horribly inefficient but at least it works.