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Android string-scanning bug breaks apps handling non-ASCII text

Description On Android 17 builds from September 2026, wcscspn() and wcspbrk() stop at the first character of the string that is >= U+0100 whenever the reject set has two or more characters that are... Image: Primary
An Android bug report identifies a regression in two string-scanning functions that can break applications handling emoji and other non-ASCII text. A response in the Android NDK issue tracker acknowledges the diagnosis, says the issue persists in the latest development code, and proposes additional tests and a backport of the fix. The functions incorrectly treat characters at or above U+0100 as matches when searching for two or more delimiters below U+0100. The reporter traced the behavior through disassembly of the shipped library because public source code differed from September builds. Visual Pinball stopped loading tables with emoji in VBScript comments; its folder-moving code also misclassified affected paths as wildcard patterns.
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