Vgstation13: stange anti-british bug

[D3athrow-Issues]

(WEB REPORT BY: pvak REMOTE: 172.93.109.202:7777)

Revision (Should be above if you're viewing this from ingame!)

General description of the issue
writing a message with the pound sign (£) breaks it and makes it unable to be sent (for chat + ooc) when used on ahelp it makes the bwoink sound but its invisible for the receiver http://puu.sh/t4Tug/b79ebe81a3.png

What you expected to happen
be able to use £

What actually happened
racism against british people

Steps to reproduce if possible
write £ on chat
try send message
get nothing

i blame ira for this

[Exxion]

All special characters break it
Blame BYOND

[mph55]

You could remove the double url_encode in browserOutput.dm so issues like those and the Hécate are fixed, it's not like UTF-8 is used outside of the screaming russians

[Exxion]

Goonchat ALWAYS uses UTF-8
The problem is that BYOND doesn't.

[PJB3005]

@mph55 is correct here.

That'd fix it, but only for the Windows-1252 range.

[PJB3005]

No the issue is that anything above 127 is different between UTF-8 and Windows-1252, so the Javascript client side throws a Unicode Decode Error.

I would've already fixed this if Javascript weren't a shit language and actually allowed you to specify the encoding to use when decoding.

[PJB3005]

Like, my best idea would be to catch the UnicodeDecodeError and then use a regex to turn the encoded Windows-1252 bytes that aren't valid UTF-8 into UTF-8.

[ghost]

Why fix this, the Brits deserve it

[Wizardcrying]

@DrCelt stop shitposting.

[IratePirate]

You people make me sick.

[ReindH]

Of course there are no british, it's the future!

[Shadowmech88]

This no longer seems to be the case.

[DamianX]

But did you try it with 2 clients? Sounds like the issue is when they use two different encodings.

[PJB3005]

Nah. This is fixed.

[Exxion]

This was the exact issue libvg was originally created to fix