[General] Escaping "[]" in a cinematic scene

[Eikonium]

Hi guys,

I just noticed that characters engulfed by square brackets don't show up in a cinematic scene, when letterbox mode is activated.

The code below will only show "AC" ingame.

call ShowInterface(false, 0.)
call SetCinematicScene('npn3', GetPlayerColor(Player(0)), "Title", "A[B]C", 5., 5.)

How can I escape the "[]" so that "A[B]C" is fully displayed?

Best regards,
Eikonium

 

[Eikonium]

Push

 

[Chaosy]

You can try using \

I don't know if it works but in other languages that is how you would do it.

So: "A\[B\]C

 

[Eikonium]

Unfortunately doesn't work.

Inputting "A\[B\]C" gives a compile error in lua (which I'm using), because "\[" ist not a known escape sequence.

One can still input the desired characters by typing "A\x5C\x5BB\x5C\x5DC" (5C, 5B and 5D being the ASCII hex codes for \, [ and ] respectively), but that again will just show "A\C" ingame.

What language is Warcraft actually written in? I reckon that escaping things in lua doesn't work, as the string is passed to the SetCinematicScene-native, which is written in another language (maybe C?).

 

[TriggerHappy]

Thats odd. I wonder if it has something to do with Lua's Pattern API. Does this happen in JASS? Also, have you tried writing the character twice? i.e [[]]

 

[Eikonium]

JASS has the same problem ("\[" gives compile error and "[...]" doesn't show up in a cinematic sequence).

"[[]]" shows as "]". First opening bracket swallows everything up to the first closing bracket.