Hello Drill Developers, I wanted to share an interesting development that happened yesterday. I was teaching a class at BlackHat, and we have a worksheet that includes a Drill demonstration using PyDrill. Basically the students are asked to execute a query in Drill using PyDrill then visualize the results.
Anyway, a student from Japan tried this, and was getting all kinds of crazy errors. So I sat down and worked with him to debug. It turns out that the period on the Japanese keyboard, maps to a different unicode character than on US keyboards, and hence the queries throw errors. I discovered this because when I would cut/paste a query from a text file that I wrote, the query executed, but if we typed one in, it broke. After digging around a bit, I found that it was the period character. I’m not sure that this can or should be fixed, but I wanted to let people know about this. Best, — C
