Names with ^M and ^F

Garkin · 04/15/14, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by Nameious

Anyone notice this? I can see it in subtitles. It stands for Male and Female as each time its a male with ^M and ^F for females. Its not game breaking, but rather annoying. Is this a addon issue or a UI bug within the game?

Do you use pChat addon? If you do, try to update it to the latest version. In the changelog he has the following line for version 1.4.1:

- Fixed NPC names displaying ^F and ^M

Nameious · 04/16/14, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by Garkin

Do you use pChat addon? If you do, try to update it to the latest version. In the changelog he has the following line for version 1.4.1:

This as indeed the case.. I missed an update somewhere.

Bl4ckSh33p · 04/19/14, 01:04 PM

The German client has this "issue" almost everywhere. Zonenames, Charnames, Itemnames.. all have extra text added. I wrote a few lines to remove them and my brother created a function for it. If you have an addon with this issue you should be able to fix it with this code:

Code:

ESNT_sauber = function(test)
 	if test then
		local pos = string.find (test, "^", 1, true) 
		if pos then
			test = string.sub (test, 1, pos-1)
		end
	return test	
	end
end

Just call this function with your string as parameter (test). This should remove all parts behind "^" and just display the name.

archpoet · 04/24/14, 01:14 PM

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append...rol_characters

**Seerah** · 04/24/14, 02:02 PM

That's not what these characters are for, but thanks for the link.

archpoet · 04/24/14, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Seerah

That's not what these characters are for, but thanks for the link.

Oh, hmm.. it seemed likely considering ^M^F is CarriageReturn,ACK.

However, if Bl4ckSh33p's function is actually stripping them.. then they are the string representations rather than the control characters themselves.

Nameious · 04/24/14, 06:54 PM

I'm actually having this issue again, but not sure which is causing it. Possibly FTC? I'll have to check my addons and see which it is. It seems to only happen on named mobs IE bosses and I'll see IE Molag Bal^^ and ect. Honestly my addon library is vast this might take awhile.