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Default Re: Nickname issue... - 08-09-2011

Backslash is reserved for a special function in client to server communications in ET (and probably many other Quake3 derived games). It marks and delimits each record (for example issue the configstrings command in the console, then scroll up to find your alias after a n\. The next record prefix is t\ for team etc.) So a backslash can't be in your alias because it will cause havoc with server communication. And standard C string handling uses backslash to escape a character so I don't see anyway to do that either.


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