Names with ^M and ^F

Nameious · 04/14/14, 06:09 PM

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?

**Seerah** · 04/14/14, 09:11 PM

Subtitles is an addon, no? It's an addon issue because they're not parsing those codes out of the name. (Those aren't the only suffixes added, btw.)

Nameious · 04/15/14, 01:08 AM

No you right click chat and select NPC. Anyways I see it in HUD aswell.

wilson0x4d · 04/15/14, 06:32 AM

As Seerah noted... It's an add-on issue and means names are displayed/used without being parsed first.

If you see this happening in a default game UI (without any Add-Ons loaded) then you should open a bug report with ZeniMax support, the game should not be displaying unparsed names. Otherwise you may want to try and figure out which Add-On is misbehaving and contact the author(s) for a fix.

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.