I've never had an issue with strange characters messing up the srcds console or my terminal. My terminal is using UTF-8 for character encoding. This is sensible anyway, I would have thought all linux distros would do this by now...
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Tony Paloma <[email protected]> wrote: > Change the character encoding to UTF-8. For example, in PuTTY, the option is > in Window->Translation and defaults to Latin-1. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Haigh > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 7:35 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: [hlds_linux] BUG: Displaying users in hlds > > When I get a user that connects with a 'strange' name, sometimes this plays > hell with the linux terminal. > > For example, one user on my server now, when I do a 'status' command, I get > the following output: > > # userid name uniqueid connected ping loss > state adr > # 109 "IMAROBOT" STEAM_0:0:43645338 25:27 408 0 > active 81.64.92.199:27005 > # 134 "regretful.sinner" STEAM_0:0:1343099 07:19 223 0 > active 108.23.5.117:27005 > # 20 "kpb2563" STEAM_0:1:20918666 45:52 420 0 > active 218.1.76.114:27005 > # 19 "Vizaba" STEAM_0:1:44817719 47:58 295 0 > active 187.205.217.54:59715 > # 21 "stepankotov" STEAM_0:1:53819317 45:52 415 0 > active 218.1.76.114:1024 > # 111 "Ã > > This remains (no terminal updates) until I hit ^A, Z in screen to reset the > terminal. Should there be code in the server output to handle non-standard > text output? > > -- > Steven Haigh > > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://www.crc.id.au > Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 > Fax: (03) 8338 0299 > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
