--Ciper-- posted:
I have 30 years in Development, and still every once in while get caught where some odd input sequence causes unexpected concequence. Think of the Wi flag.
Hazridi posted:
Like I bloody told you before, the code doesn't deal with dashes in any way, shape, or form. The bug is entirely unrelated to the presence of lack thereof of a DASH in the name. There are a million permutations of character data in the character login packet and the problem is with the protocol handler, NOT HAVING A DASH IN YOUR NAME.
30 years in software development means jack when you're clearly not capable of overcoming superstition. Just because you and someone else is crashing when you both have dashes in your name does not mean the problem comes from having a dash in your name. Dashes are not special in any way. Dashes are just another character in whichever character set the code is using.
Like I bloody told you before, the code doesn't deal with dashes in any way, shape, or form. The bug is entirely unrelated to the presence of lack thereof of a DASH in the name. There are a million permutations of character data in the character login packet and the problem is with the protocol handler, NOT HAVING A DASH IN YOUR NAME.
30 years in software development means jack when you're clearly not capable of overcoming superstition. Just because you and someone else is crashing when you both have dashes in your name does not mean the problem comes from having a dash in your name. Dashes are not special in any way. Dashes are just another character in whichever character set the code is using.
I have 30 years in Development, and still every once in while get caught where some odd input sequence causes unexpected concequence. Think of the Wi flag.
Very true, have you every tried to use the . or , or ' character in phpBB. It totally screws with the system. Yes, I know they are totally not the same, but there ARE certain characters that mess with programs from user input. For the longest time, the authors of phpBB didn't believe it, and it was only recently fixed.
With that said, I was just on a toon named "Edrin al-Jafar" and Treestats updates him just fine ... http://www.treestats.com/index.php?Name=edrin+al-jafar&Server=0&Type=Char
coding in php.
