Special characters cause script loss(?)

[Vadim Peretokin]

Pharanyx - Today at 12:10 AM
This is getting really frustrating. I wish I could pin down why it's happening.
Mudlet has randomly decided that a whole bunch of scripts that I have been working on today no longer exist and just completely removed the code from them. It's happened to around a dozen, all scripts I've worked on this session.
Lost almost an entire days work.
Seriously. Goddamit.

Belgarath - Today at 12:12 AM
Are you using the latest 3.0?

Pharanyx - Today at 12:12 AM
Am using 3.0.1-dev

Belgarath - Today at 12:13 AM
So you compiled it yourself (how long ago)?

Pharanyx - Today at 12:13 AM
Yeah, looking through my script objects now, every single object that I've made changes to today is completely gone. The object still exists, it's just had the code removed.
Compiled about 3/4 days ago.

Belgarath - Today at 12:15 AM
Hmm. I hope that doesn't mean the official 3.0 still has that bug.
I'd suggest installing the official 3.0.

Pharanyx - Today at 12:15 AM
Not an option for me. Too much of my system relies on development branch.
My entire system would simply not work if I went back to 3.0

Belgarath - Today at 12:16 AM
Hard to say whether or not the version you compiled came before the official release that (claims) to have already fixed the script deletion bug.

Pharanyx - Today at 12:19 AM
That's odd. Just loaded a profile from earlier today, where the code was present.
Gone from that profile, too.

Buck - Today at 1:29 AM
@Jor that usually happens to me if I put in a special character somewhere
@Pharanyx * even
it gets saved literally, and when mudlet tries to load it the next time, it chokes

[Stephen Lyons (slysven)]

What precisely do you mean when you refer to a "special character"? Do you mean you had a raw string literal in the "Lua code" box that was not an 7-bit ASCII character?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Maybe that's what the person in the chat log is referring to, yes. We'd
have to find out

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:21 AM Stephen Lyons <email address hidden>
wrote:

> What precisely do you mean when you refer to a "special character"? Do
> you mean you had a raw string literal in the "Lua code" box that was not
> an 7-bit ASCII character?
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[Chris Leacy (cleacy1972)]

fyi I don't think it was coming about from special characters, but it's possible: I use 3.0 / not 3.0-dev myself because i'd seen scripts disappear from 3.0-dev moderately often, but was never able to isolate what had caused it to occur.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Migrating issues to Github, please follow the new discussion here: https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet/issues/816

This issue needs to be closed and there is no appropriate status, so will set it to "Opinion" just for migration purposes.