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   crmagicxxx
   Member

   If I try to post a score with player name beginning with numbers I get kPostStatusFailed, although my score is actually posted on the server. So the problem is not in posting but in response from the server.

   Can somebody reproduce this?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   crmagicxxx
   Member

   When I tried to delete one of those scores beginning with numbers I got this:
   

   File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/datastore_types.py", line 253, in from_path
       'Names may not begin with a digit; received %s.' % id_or_name)
   BadArgumentError: Names may not begin with a digit; received 123123 dusko@00000000-0000-1000-8000-001451DC1139.

   So it seems there is really problem with this kind of cc_playernames

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   riq
   Key Master

   ouch.
   bug.

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   crmagicxxx
   Member

   Also, what should I do to prevent users entering some special characters in the beginning like ";'.#$%", it all seems to be invalid...

   I thought to compare if first entered character in UITextField is from the set of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" but I am afraid of international keyboards. I don't know how international keyboards work at all, and for example Japanese characters are maybe not in that scope...

   Any ideas?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   crmagicxxx
   Member

   Uh just found that you can't for example enter character ";" anywhere in the cc_playername. I can't track all those illegal chars.

   Riq, do you know what are legal characters for cc_playername anyway?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   riq
   Key Master

   Sorry, I don't know what are the invalid character :-(
   I guess I should do some tests on that, and also add a validate_name function on the cocoslive client.
   I'll try to do it for v0.8.1

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. 

   hanburyn
   Member

   you can use the "name/number" keyboard option in IB. i do and now no illegal chars get through. Also international character sets use UTF8 coding and NSString/NSTextField handle that no problem. be careful saving such characters. i use sqlite3 dbase and have to use UTF8 format.

   ive tried submitting various int'l characters to server and works fine

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. 

   riq
   Key Master

   it seems that this bug only is affecting the games that has ranking enabled.
   if you game is not using ranking, it will accept digits as names

   update:
   if the name contains ";" it will fail both with rankings and without rankings

   Posted 2 years ago #
9. 

   hanburyn
   Member

   i use numbers in names with ranking and it works no problem

   Posted 2 years ago #
10. 

    Decept
    Member

    I was looking for a way to block illegal characters from hiscore names and I found this thread. I'm using a UITextField and the iPhone keyboard, so I tried the UIKeyboardTypeNamePhonePad as keyBoardType and that removed all the illegal chars. Problem is, now I can't enter capital characters anymore. I've always used UITextAutocapitalizationTypeWords as autocapitalizationType but that doesn't work anymore.

    Any ideas?

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    crmagicxxx
    Member

    @Decept:

    http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/1261#post-8179

    Posted 2 years ago #
12. 

    Decept
    Member

    thank you very much!

    Posted 2 years ago #

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