Without changing any settings on my MacBook Pro, suddenly yesterday when sending a text “message” it is being delivered in Chinese. I have checked the system preference and NOTHING is set to anything but American English. I am rnning
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), running SSD
Hi,
The numbers for this are slowly increasing My iMessage has been hacked
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In the total number is Apple Devices that use an Apple ID in iMessages out there this is still a small number.
In that thread I have raised the issue with the Hosts.
Change your Apple ID Password for the one used with iMessages (that might also be you ID in other apps and iCloud)
Check the Apple ID site to see if the device is listed (in the other thread this does not seem to happen).
In the other Thread people who have not been doing so have started to use 2 Step verification (needs an Messages app Specific Password).
8:02 pm Saturday; October 15, 2016
The base note writer's issue is not the same as the hack you linked to.
The problem is that sometimes, when sending a text from iMessage (OS X 10.12) to an android phone user, the text appears to being padded from UTF-8 to UTF-16, padded with a 0x40 which gets rendered by the android client, I assume correctly, as a Chinese character set. If one takes the received message, and strips the extra unicode byte off and displays the result as UTF-8, the original message is revealed.
In my case, I have a message that was typed using the Mac iMessage client that is being received "in Chinese", but typing the exact same message on my iPhone, the text is received fine.
chow11 wrote:
The problem is that sometimes, when sending a text from iMessage (OS X 10.12) to an android phone user, the text appears to being padded from UTF-8 to UTF-16, padded with a 0x40
What's really puzzling is how this could suddenly be happening, and whether it is a problem with Message, the carriers, or Android....
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