[Ellie]

Is there a way to have special characters printed to chat from a CFG file?

Basically what I'm trying to do is this, have some CFG files on server with sm_say "message here" that contains special characters. Something like this in a CFG:

sm_say "Welcome all fans of ❤Hello Kitty❤"

The problem is that it prints the message, but stops right before the first special character. So all people see is this:

(ALL) Console: Welcome all fans of

Why does it get cut off at the special character? I saved the CFG files in UTF-8 and UTF-8 w/o BOM and it made no difference. Is there a way to do this? Something to do with Basechat?

[DJ Data]

You may want to make a plugin and use the UTF Format Class.

PHP Code:

ServerCommand("sm_say Welcome all fans of %u Hello Kitty %u", utf_string_here, utf_string_here); 


Im not sure though ;)

[Ellie]

So it can't be done without a plugin? it would very odd if that's the case. The text file shows the characters just fine. And even in HLSW if I type in that command it displays the characters to players in game just fine. So what's the deal?

[Powerlord]

What code are you using to read from the file?

Originally Posted by DJ Data You may want to make a plugin and use the UTF Format Class. PHP Code: ServerCommand("sm_say Welcome all fans of %u Hello Kitty %u", utf_string_here, utf_string_here);  Im not sure though ;)

"u" is "Unsigned integer number as decimal" in the documentation...

[GsiX]

there is formating rule of UTF8 as i recall from my reading.. maybe you missing this one..

p/s: its been long you didnt post something.. i miss you so much my Rosss...

EDIT: I think firgram point this out.. miss him too.. didnt troll him in a while.. >.<"

[Ellie]

Originally Posted by Powerlord What code are you using to read from the file? "u" is "Unsigned integer number as decimal" in the documentation...

I'm simply using CFG files which have those say commands in them. And we use the admin menu to execute the CFG files.

[Pyro_]

https://wiki.alliedmods.net/Format_C...eMod_Scripting)

It's %c

[Bacardi]

Re-compile SM basechat plugin, before this, convert plugin source files (*.sp) to UTF-8 without BOM format.
*edit
Use Notepad++ or else, not notepad.exe

[Ellie]

Thank you. I'll try it now

[Ellie]

I did that. It still doesn't work. The plugin encoding was changed to UTF-8 w/o BOM (I even added a special character to make sure it saved in that format). The messages still get cut off right where the first special character is supposed to be