bad new line termination or wide characters for Nar the dwarf?

[saarn]

I'm getting really weird messages while fighting nar the dwarf. His character description is strange too (He was friends with "King Thr r")

Fighting I see great stuff like:

Nar, the Dwarf sets off a Dblinding flash
You are blind. s    o   a D
You hit it.    s    o   a D

Ah, crud, while trying to copy this in, I died too (accidentally hit arrows in the wrong window). Insult to injury.

[Derakon]

There's a bug along those lines in the Mac port. It has something to do with the special characters in his name; you'll see similar issues when fighting mumakil or Ar-Pharazon or the like. Nar (and Smeagol) are the first monsters to show up that will cause the issue though.

[Magnate]

Can you just confirm your platform - Mac OSX? Carbon or Cocoa version?

[saarn]

OSX 10.6.8. I assume it's the Cocoa version (since I thought Carbon got dropped ages ago).

[Derakon]

Nope, it's Carbon. Carbon's officially deprecated but the libraries are still available -- for now. The Cocoa port, last I heard, wasn't quite ready for business yet. More importantly though, it should handle those characters properly.