0000057: Certain chat characters have strange/annoying effects

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0000057

Zandronum

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2010-09-24 09:43

2018-09-30 19:48

Reporter

Cutman

Assigned To

Torr Samaho

Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

fixed

Platform

Microsoft

Windows

OS Version

XP/Vista/7

Product Version

98c

Target Version

Fixed in Version

98d

Summary

0000057: Certain chat characters have strange/annoying effects

Description

This has been going on for ages and I'm surprised no one has reported it yet. Basically there's a few characters/code you can use in chat to cause some weird effects. There's two I know of.

The first one is simply a line break, which allows people to chat on a new line. This is annoying because people can do something like this:

RealPlayerName: Hey Player 2 are you a moron?
Player2: Yes I am!

Not only that but I've seen people just spam line breaks so it's impossible to see the chat, and the console doesn't help much either.

The second one is a little stranger. When used, the chat line is pasted right after the previous player's name. Again this is spammed often to annoy players. For example:

RealPlayerName: Player2: Damn these chat bugs are annoying!

Steps To Reproduce

Unfortunately I have no idea how to do this online. Watching over a popular server is bound to have someone expose it, and it's been around for a while so I'm guessing SOMEONE knows how to do it.

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(0000147) unknownna (updater) 2010-09-24 13:43	Yeah, I've talked to Spleen about this. They are abusing the escape sequences.

(0000160) Torr Samaho (administrator) 2010-09-25 19:58	Should be fixed now. I'll try to post a new testing binary later.

(0000164) Torr Samaho (administrator) 2010-09-25 20:55	This should fix the issue, please test.

(0000173) unknownna (updater) 2010-09-25 21:36	I only know how to reproduce the '\n' one. That one doesn't work anymore. But I don't know how to reproduce the other one where a player makes two individual chat lines appear on the same line. This is how it looks like in-game: RealPlayerName1: This person is lame. -----> RealPlayerName2: Hi, I just joined.

(0000175) Torr Samaho (administrator) 2010-09-25 22:02	If it properly prevents \n from being abused, I'm pretty sure that it will also take care of the rest.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-09-24 09:43	Cutman	New Issue
2010-09-24 13:43	unknownna	Note Added: 0000147
2010-09-25 19:58	Torr Samaho	Note Added: 0000160
2010-09-25 19:58	Torr Samaho	Status	new => resolved
2010-09-25 19:58	Torr Samaho	Fixed in Version	=> 98d
2010-09-25 19:58	Torr Samaho	Resolution	open => fixed
2010-09-25 19:58	Torr Samaho	Assigned To	=> Torr Samaho
2010-09-25 20:55	Torr Samaho	Note Added: 0000164
2010-09-25 20:55	Torr Samaho	Status	resolved => feedback
2010-09-25 20:55	Torr Samaho	Resolution	fixed => reopened
2010-09-25 21:36	unknownna	Note Added: 0000173
2010-09-25 22:02	Torr Samaho	Note Added: 0000175
2010-09-25 22:02	Torr Samaho	Status	feedback => resolved
2010-09-25 22:02	Torr Samaho	Resolution	reopened => fixed
2012-06-09 13:22	Torr Samaho	Category	General => Bug
2018-09-30 19:48	Blzut3	Status	resolved => closed

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