strange degree symbol

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eraldo
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strange degree symbol

Post by eraldo »

Whenever someone 'tells' me something in my mud
I get a degree symbol before the actual line.

The programmers of my mud have checked and told me that
it id not sent to me.. and it has to be some client side problem.

Sample Text from the MUD: (reconstructed)

As it is now:
°Leo Lachgummi redet zu Dir: trotzdem danke

As it should be:
Leo Lachgummi redet zu Dir: trotzdem danke

Any idea why that is...
What info / data can I give you to help solve the problem?

eraldo
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Re: strange degree symbol

Post by eraldo »

I have found out that I get this symbol if the MUD sends a 'beep" to me!
I desabled beeping in my mudds settings...
now the symbol is gone.

It would still be nice if this feature would work as intended...
but for me this is very low priority.

If there are further questions ... don't hesitate to ask.

Greetings,
Eraldo

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Heiko
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Re: strange degree symbol

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Judging from last night's conversation I'm pretty sure that this issue + the other font issues that you've reported are related to a broken qt4.5 lib in your Linux distribution or a broken compiler setup. The easiest way to get a working qt lib + correctly configured compiler is to download the qt 4.5 SDK for linux from the trolltech/nokia website. This package has an installer. Tell it to install to /usr/local/src and then set an alias in your .bashrc config file to call qmake from the new 4.5 package instead of your distribution's qt version. This will create makefiles that automatically use the working qt versions, compiler options etc.
This will do away with most of your strange bugs :)

eraldo
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Re: strange degree symbol

Post by eraldo »

I have tried it on different (still Ubuntu) systems now...
They all can't handle the beep that is sent from the mud!

I will also try it on a mac today...

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Re: strange degree symbol

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Mudlet doesn't support console beeps, but you can make a trigger for them and play a sound yourself.

I'm talking about the rest of your "strange symbols" on command echos etc. issues that are entirely unrelated to beeps. This is why it's fairly obvious that you have a qt/compiler/configuration issue of some kind. Note that many Linux distributions ship with less than perfect qt versions & configurations. The SDK package won't mess with your system qt installation and simply coexist so to speak. This is the best option for everybody who experiences strange unconfirmed bugs that cannot be reproduced - even I use it myself because my Debian qt version has issues too and Ubuntu is Debian derived. I also use this package to build the windows binaries.

eraldo
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Re: strange degree symbol

Post by eraldo »

Cool... I'll do that, thank you!

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