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Special Characters in Smaug
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| Posted by
| Gradius
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| Tue 19 Oct 2004 07:37 PM (UTC) |
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| I am using Smaug 1.4 and using area editor to build my zones. For some reason i cannot use characters like "~" or "^". The "~" are not allowed by area editor and if i change it in-game the ~ shows up as a -. when i use ^ they are just dont show up in the right spots... i was wondering if ther was some sort of code snippet somewhere that allows for special characters.. maybe some special characters on the ascii character map. like ♥ and such.. any help would be appreciated :)
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| Posted by
| Zeno
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| Reply #1 on Tue 19 Oct 2004 08:38 PM (UTC) |
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| | Both those cannot be used, because ~ represents an end of the string, and ^ lets the string continue to multiple lines. I've seen a MUD or two with special characters, such as a Godwars MUD. Not sure how to do it though. |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #2 on Tue 19 Oct 2004 10:31 PM (UTC) |
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| If you look at the code that reads in the area files, it delimits the description (for a room, say) with the ~ character, so clearly you can't have that in the middle of a room description.
Using the &#blah; approach would work, if the player was using MXP, however you would be in trouble if they are not. |
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