[Mitchell]

Character Replacer!
Description: THis was made by request and i really wanted it too, it would deem useful with servers that like to enforce rules but rather not guess a client's name with special characters in his/her name.

Cvars: sm_replacecharacters_version

Commands: sm_reloadchar - refreshes the config (below)

Config: (configs/charconfig.cfg)

"CharConfig"
{
	"†" //Character to Find
	{
		"replace"	"t" //Character to replace with
	}
	"∅"
	{
		"replace"	"o"
	}
	"®"
	{
		"replace"	"r"
	}
	"ü"
	{
		"replace"	"u"
	}
	"₤"
	{
		"replace"	"e"
	}
}

The config will automatically choose the first match it finds, so if you have two '†' in the config it will replace with the first one, and the second one will be a waste of space.
THE CONFIG MUST, MUST BE IN UTF-8, or it wont read the characters right.

Release Notes:

[1.0.2] (11/26/12) - Added 'quote' to the config as an alias to "
[1.0.2] (11/26/12) - Initial Release.

Notes: I plan on adding a feature that if it is not "A-Z,a-z,0-9,!@#$%^&*()_-+=[]:;'"\|.,/?><{}" then it makes the character a 'flagged' character, if there are too many characters (Clients name size / cvar * 100 == 60%) then it will change the clients name to a random generic name.

Also, if you would like to paste your config here to help out other server admins, then do so. all help is needed

[Huntereb]

I'll add this when it gets the ability to change every character that can't be used on the keyboard to one specific character, instead of having to define which ones are replaced.

This looks like it will be great, thanks!

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Mitchell Character Replacer! Description: THis was made by request and i really wanted it too, it would deem useful with servers that like to enforce rules but rather not guess a client's name with special characters in his/her name.

This is why the stock SourceMod commands and anything that uses ProcessTargetString accepts a userid (prefix it with #). You can get userids using the status command.

For example, to rename Replay from whatever another admin named it to, I can do sm_rename #2 "Replay"

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Powerlord This is why the stock SourceMod commands and anything that uses ProcessTargetString accepts a userid (prefix it with #). You can get userids using the status command. For example, to rename Replay from whatever another admin named it to, I can do sm_rename #2 "Replay"

What... i meant in general, not on commands, so you when you see a name in game sometimes it will have boxes as the characters, and on steam chat it will look fine, it could be used in that case. I know about the number sign to target players.. i've been using it for years, now i dont have to.

I'm having a glitch with a command spam preventer (smac or sm, not sure which one) that kicks clients for to many name changes. Could be the broadcast of the event.

[Aggamemnon]

I personally think this will be a great plugin. I have way too many players coming onto my servers
with names that are very difficult to make any sense of.

Looking forward to when it is finished.

[excalibur]

I can see potential regarding prevention of SQL injection when logging stuff to the database by replacing the chars which matter the most

[Skyy]

Originally Posted by excalibur I can see potential regarding prevention of SQL injection when logging stuff to the database by replacing the chars which matter the most

This is why SQL_EscapeString exists.

[excalibur]

I'm not familiar with sourcemod coding but thanks for the info.

[Skyy]

When working with databases in general, you escape the strings as part of the precaution against injection attacks. In regards to custom characters, it just means setting a charset for the database to recognize as well.

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by excalibur I can see potential regarding prevention of SQL injection when logging stuff to the database by replacing the chars which matter the most

I misread that in thinking that my plugin had sql.. i even looked at the source because i couldn't remember >.>