Re: pastebin crash
- Posted by katsmeow in January
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I'm guessing 8bit extended ascii? Something 7bit acsii compatible shouldn't have triggered this sort of error. But I vaguely recall that some extended 8bit values were sometimes used for screen control..or to render some slightly fancier graphics on what was otherwise a text console.
The olde mirc versions used 8bit "control codes", i know this because i wrote a fairly complete irc client in Eu. It was "fairly complete" because i never got a useful Windows window, despite begging for assistance. I used a dos console to display, which was nice enough to have a multiple screen line entry partition with word wrap. It was quite sufficient for a bot, and could use mirc solely as a scriptable "plug-in" gui.
For a time, "leet" non-english characters were the rage with some people. This was bad enough i wrote a translator to convert that to english too.
Kat
