Add a workaround to make work properly the tell command with utf8 player names

diff --git a/qcsrc/server/command/cmd.qc b/qcsrc/server/command/cmd.qc
index 24187b172f01a398cc8b7f6bfda135d63c62e234..f955730336ceb4c271a79a4638d3ee012fee1a09 100644 (file)
--- a/qcsrc/server/command/cmd.qc
+++ b/qcsrc/server/command/cmd.qc
@@ -717,7 +717,18 @@ void ClientCommand_tell(float request, float argc, string command)
                                {
                                        if(tell_to != self) // and we're allowed to send to them :D
                                        {
-                                               Say(self, false, tell_to, substring(command, argv_start_index(next_token), argv_end_index(-1) - argv_start_index(next_token)), true);
+                                               // workaround for argv indexes indexing ascii chars instead of utf8 chars
+                                               // In this case when the player name contains utf8 chars
+                                               // the message gets partially trimmed in the beginning.
+                                               // Potentially this bug affects any substring call that uses
+                                               // argv_start_index and argv_end_index.
+
+                                               string utf8_enable_save = cvar_string("utf8_enable");
+                                               cvar_set("utf8_enable", "0");
+                                               string msg = substring(command, argv_start_index(next_token), argv_end_index(-1) - argv_start_index(next_token));
+                                               cvar_set("utf8_enable", utf8_enable_save);
+
+                                               Say(self, false, tell_to, msg, true);
                                                return;
                                        }
                                        else { print_to(self, "You can't ^2tell^7 a message to yourself."); return; }