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High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-11-08T12:49:00-04:00

Hi,
being the author of CHATstats, I'm interested in knowing where exactly the problem can be within the script, from a theoretical point of view.

There's no encoding transformation/converting in the script. For channel names or nick names, whatever strange characters they contain, the script just takes the characters, does some list and/or string processing and outputs them. Where could be the point where the script messes up?
The problem is, even a simple one-line-script (bound to join or whatever) like

if {[onchan $channel $nick]} {do_this}

would mess up if the nick contained strange characters.

So I'd like to know what I can include as a workaround. Any ideas ?

Thnx in advance,

Baerchen

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Nov 08, 2001 12:49 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-30T22:12:00-04:00

Well, I don't know about problems with the character in the #channel, but I use this quite often in 1.6.5:

if {[info commands realputserv] == ""} {
rename putserv realputserv
proc putserv { thestring } {
realputserv [encoding convertfrom identity $thestring]
}
}
if {[info commands realputdcc] == ""} {
rename putdcc realputdcc
proc putdcc { idx thestring } {
realputdcc $idx [encoding convertfrom identity $thestring]
}
}

- does anyone know if stdarg's patch will fix my need to have to use this snippet of code anymore?

Thanks,

Raven.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sun Sep 30, 2001 10:12 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-29T09:48:00-04:00

Yeah.. the bot has no trouble with joining the channel, but when its supposed to run tcl scripts in this channel, it goes bananas..

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sat Sep 29, 2001 9:48 am

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-28T21:33:00-04:00

Maybe the problem is with the script. It sounds like your bot is able to join the channel with the weird letter in it, so it must be handling the utf correctly.

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Fri Sep 28, 2001 9:33 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-28T16:39:00-04:00

i get and recompile my eggdrop with 1.6-current and everything is run perfectly with this case. thanks

Statistics: Posted by stere0 — Fri Sep 28, 2001 4:39 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-28T15:36:00-04:00

I tried one more time, but the same result.. the eggdrop just tells me:

[18:42] TCL error [cs_update]: illegal channel:

And it cant parse the "ø" characters..
(This is just one of many scripts i have tried. This is the Chatstats 2.11 by Baerchen btw..

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri Sep 28, 2001 3:36 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-28T14:59:00-04:00

Well.. i have tried to run several htmlstats tcl-scripts, but one of my #channels is contains two "ø"'s in the name, and this kills the bot compleatly. Have tried the 1.6current version as well, but with no luck.. its a little sad, cause when i finaly got to buy myself a .nu domain, that supports "ø" (or other high bit characters), i still cant get irc stats for my webpage... :-/

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri Sep 28, 2001 2:59 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-28T13:36:00-04:00

Heh, I just tried to apply the patch to 1.6.6 and you're right, it doesn't work.

But I downloaded eggdrop1.6-current.tar.gz and the patch is already applied in there, so that should be all you need.

What errors did you run into with eggdrop1.6-current?

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Fri Sep 28, 2001 1:36 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-28T04:24:00-04:00

Hi again. Im using the same version as you.

[sendron@localhost sendron]$ patch --version
patch 2.5.4
Copyright 1984-1988 Larry Wall
Copyright 1989-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri Sep 28, 2001 4:24 am

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-27T21:09:00-04:00

Maybe you have an incompatible version of patch. It was created with:

diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7

And it applies correctly with my:

patch 2.5.4

Try checking the manual page for patch ("man patch") and look for an argument you can pass to make it compatible with gnu patch, or try a context patch or something.

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Thu Sep 27, 2001 9:09 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-27T20:47:00-04:00

Yes, its in the right dir, check it out:

http://www.project-starlight.com/shell.gif

More clues?

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Sep 27, 2001 8:47 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-27T19:54:00-04:00

This sounds like you are patching from the incorect DIR.

Download eggdrop1.6.6.tar.gz
tar -zxf eggdrop1.6.6.tar.gz
cd eggdrop1.6.6
download patch
patch -p1 < patch.filename
compile and make as normal

It sounds liek you didn't have the patch file in the right dir.

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Thu Sep 27, 2001 7:54 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-27T19:22:00-04:00

Oki.. here goes...
I unrared the eggdrop1.6.6, downloaded the patch to the same dir. Runned the patch, and this is the result:

patch -p1 < utf_solution2.patch

patching file src/botmsg.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 55.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/botmsg.c.rej
missing header for unified diff at line 15 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 15
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
| for (i = 0; i < dcc_total; i++)
--------------------------
File to patch:

Any ideas?

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Sep 27, 2001 7:22 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-27T15:50:00-04:00

Well at the time i have a hard time accessing your patch at : http://home.dal.net/stdragon/eggdrop/ut ... ion2.patch

Is this the right adresss?

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Sep 27, 2001 3:50 pm

High bit characters in Tcl & eggdrop

2001-09-27T11:58:00-04:00

I know that i dont have to patch the 1.6-current.tar.gz, so i didnt try to patch it either, but it still didnt work.

Im going to try out this patch and eggdrop1.6.6 now. Will post my errors, if some, after that. Thx so far.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Sep 27, 2001 11:58 am