The Ace Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Hello all. I was wondering, do special characters in names, such as: ? ? ? ? affect sending messages to that user? In a game that I played, I had special characters in my name, and sometimes I could receive messages, yet sometimes I couldn't.... Anyone actually know why this happened!? Ggl. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floydian Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Re: Special Characters well, if people have to type in your name, i.e., in a user search, they'll likely never type those sorts of characters in. (and on that grounds, I don't allow special characters alone) if you are getting errors in any database queries due to improperly escaped characters or even perhaps using the deprecated mysql_escape instead of the newer mysql_real_escape_string. Although I'm no expert on character encodings, PHP doesn't have the kind of support for the full range of characters as one might expect. PHP 6 (and perhaps PHP 5.3.0) introduces support for UNICODE which is supposed to greatly improve character suppose. That stuff is tricky and it's best to just not allow it IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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