[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10338) Commas should be banned from player names

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10338 >

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Jason Short wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10338 >
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> Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10338 >
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> > Subject says it all. This is important for gamelog among other things. Bad
> > to have a record separator as part of a name.
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> You mean leader names?  That seems a bad way to go about it.  If we have
> UTF-8 commas will be the least of problems as far as parsing
> concatenated strings goes.

Separators are always special, no matter what the encoding. So either we
change the gamelog format or we do not accept separators.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa