Re: Strange nicknames (T&,,,4#41!!)

Strange. First I thought it was a smurf, changing nicks on a daily base. But then, suddenly, more and more players popped up with that strange symbol-number-combination.

I asked one guy in my squad what it was about and he told me "Its a bug"...but I´m not sure about that to be honest.

@W3stminst3r 

upon further research I found out it is a bug.

Strange stuff happens to the names like you have seen when the player tries to put an ' in their name.

So instead of Westminster's it shows up with Westminster &  T&,,,4#41!! or such. 

Sure it's not '(' and ')' as those have ASCII values of 40 and 41 which would explain the odd encoding.  Text is sometimes processed like that behind the scenes.  Especially using XML.

You can see more here:  https://www.baeldung.com/xml-encode-special-characters

Ok, interesting. That explains a lot.

Yeah it's just a rendering bug.  They are not translating the encoded characters to the screen properly, that's all.