They are unicode chars. Try using an unicode terminal (like uxterm) program to "see" the characters correctly.
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:30 +0100, James Tucker wrote: > Some people capture logs from the console output (moronic maybe, but hey). > > What about name duplication? > e.g. raggi™ > e.g. raggiš > > These could resolve to the same charecter (there are two non-ascii > chars on the end there). In this event you may have problems with > third party tools, in particular stats packages and so on. > > Interesting, is it possible to put control charecters into your name? > What fun, I'm off to play. > > > On 6/27/05, Vorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure if this is the place to post it (but would be interesting to > > see if there's any other interest in any case) - if not, where should > > I be sending this. > > > > Probably a trivial issue (which could be just as simple to fix), but here > > goes: > > > > The console logging of hlds on *nix machines, particularly when ssh'ed > > and/or running under "screen" (multi-console app, common to many *nix > > distributions) is disrupted by the use of extended characters in > > people's playernames (which appears to be common practice). Would > > there be a possibility to strip and/or sanitize the log to remove this > > problem? Given that (AFAIK) all operations on players can be > > performed using their steam id, there is no real need to see the > > *exact* playername in the console log (however the disk-written logs > > may not need this treatment). > > > > Does this seem reasonable? Comments welcome. > > > > > > Vorn. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
