Debriefing > General Goldeneye
[Dev's Ask Fans] What do you want in Beta 3?
PeskySaurus:
Those weird ASCII symbols seem childish and poser anyway. Some of the best players in Halo PC play as "new001". Although that might just be to throw everyone off.
By the way, is "(" and ")" a character map? Cause I play as "RoyalAbidi(PeskySaurus)"
VC:
The problem is character encoding. Each character has a number, and you repsent them with codes. Old systems used one byte and supported 256 character codes. Obviously that's not enough for all the languages in use, so a dozen coding systems have been created to encode higher numbers with multiple bytes. If you feed one character encoding to a system that expects a different encoding, you get garbage. That's what happened.
All the characters on a normal US keyboard are in the ASCII set and will always look right anywhere. Extended ASCII (128-255) will fail if encoded to UTF-8 or similar and then rendered as Extended ASCII, because each Extended ASCII character would have been converted into two characters under UTF-8.
Sean [Baron]:
I know I read something about keyboards somewhere in there.....
major:
--- Quote from: PeskySaurus on January 23, 2009, 03:35:53 pm ---By the way, is "(" and ")" a character map? Cause I play as "RoyalAbidi(PeskySaurus)"
--- End quote ---
No, but something like this is what causes the freakout: Ӎḁ⌡ὊṜ
And thanks VC for educating the uneducated.
drukqaddik:
i was just bumbling around on a level and thought of something... in the ge64 ver if you shot the ammo boxes around they kept their position as well as the armor. if that was implemented it would bring back the nostalgia of the old game.
i would also put my face on a char if you guys need.
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