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[Tank Program]

Plus, the new server filters away non-ascii characters in everything that comes from the clients in response to the problems Jonathan and Nemo reported with them. We may make that filtering configurable, though.

The chars get replaced by their non-accented versions mostly or _ if I was to lazy figuring out a good replacement.

This explains why tons of peoples names are getting blanked out...

[Jonathan]

Plus, the new server filters away non-ascii characters in everything that comes from the clients in response to the problems Jonathan and Nemo reported with them.

The server console output screwed up his display. I don't know exactly what happened, but it needed a reboot. Note that it depends on what it is outputting at.

[Z-Man]

Hmm. What kinds of characters did you send? Just those above 127 or those below 32? I think the low ones are those that are really dangerous because they are the control characters and are interpreted as such by various terminals.

[Jonathan]

Anything but 0 from /dev/random.

[Z-Man]

Ah. Then maybe I make the filter less restrictive to only swallow control chars and we test again, shall we?

[Z-Man]

Allright, the filter now lets everything above 32 pass. Jonathan: wait for nemo to upgrade before testing again And take your time, I'll reopen the SF bug so we're reminded to test this before the release.

[Jonathan]

I think it's best to have a more advanced configurable filter for stdout/stderr output. At this time the game itself uses ISO 8859-1, but my terminal is configured for UTF-8. In this case converting (which is not much harder than using a table) and blocking 'bad' characters would be appropriate. But some other may think it is binary (as in: not text) and display it as hex (just as an example - I don't know if anything does this). In that case blocking 'bad' characters and non-ASCII is appropriate.

[DrJoeTr0n]

Ðr.Jöê TrØn Would this help at all? This is the name I use on the grid

[Z-Man]

Dr: Check font_extra.png, I think except the ö and ê, all characters are blank. If you want, you can fill them in (all of the others, too, if possible) and send us an update. They should be in the same order they are in the small font. We'll be happy to include it.

Jonathan: Yes, a console output filter may be a good idea. However, nothing terribly bad happens when you send Latin 1 to a UTF console, right? Of course, you'll get wrong characters (and some will get swallowed), but at least the display won't be corrupted. This is something to do as soon as we have full unicode support, I guess.

[Jonathan]

Jonathan: Yes, a console output filter may be a good idea. However, nothing terribly bad happens when you send Latin 1 to a UTF console, right? Of course, you'll get wrong characters (and some will get swallowed), but at least the display won't be corrupted.

That's true. UTF-8 allows for errors without screwing up. But no 1xxxxxxx char will show up correctly.

[Z-Man]

Well, If the user does not want that, he can switch his console to Latin 1. (BOFH attitude at work)
We'll switch completely to unicode, and I guess that implies UTF8-output, sometime in the future. I don't want to spend developer time now that will be certainly obsoleted later.

[Phytotron]

edit: moved to "random screenshots"

[TiTnAsS]

My name doesnt show up well on high resolutions? Damn it!

Uhh, joe, its never shown up for me...


Edit: Post is a little late ..

[Jonathan]

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 Player   Ladder Score  Matches Won  Rounds Won  R/M
Player 5    234.245         25           109     4.4

Unfortunately there's ladder tax and such, otherwise I could just leave Player 5 there and use my usual name.