[2.3.3] [DAQH] Corruption of event files (non‑breaking spaces)

[IoannesBarbarus]

Don’t know when these were introduced. Possibly responsible for a wide variety of event bugs. The only one that I have encountered personally that I blame on this is the absence of the oubliette/house arrest chain for me ever since 2.2. Those events are among those with the errors.

There’s about 2000 non‑breaking spaces (U+00A0; codepoint A0 in Windows-1252) in the game’s event files, all of them presumably errors, since they do not occur inside string literals but exist inline with the syntax where a space ought to be. (There are some non‑breaking spaces in other game files, but all of them occur inside string literals.)

This is a very easy fix (one‑liner with sed, global replace \xA0 with space) solving potentially many bugs. I hope it is considered for patching sooner, rather than put off until the next DLC.

These are the affected files:

events\adventures_the_old_gods.txtevents\byzantine_events.txt
events\cm_charlemagne_story_events.txt
events\cm_culture_conversion_events.txt
events\cm_major_events.txt
events\cm_murder_plot_events.txt
events\cm_religious_events.txt
events\cm_various_events.txt
events\hippodrome_events.txt
events\imprisoned_events.txt
events\lovers_events.txt
events\oldgods_blot_events.txt
events\oldgods_historical_events.txt
events\oldgods_holmgang_events.txt
events\oldgods_mongol_events.txt
events\oldgods_pagan_feasts.txt
events\oldgods_runestone_events.txt
events\oldgods_various_events.txt
events\oldgods_zoroastrian_events.txt
events\on_action_events.txt
events\pilgrim_events.txt
events\rebel_events_the_old_gods.txt
events\republic_dynastic_feuds.txt
events\republic_trade_events.txt
events\roi_feast_events.txt
events\roi_guru_events.txt
events\roi_hunting_events.txt
events\roi_various_events.txt
events\roman_events.txt
events\schism_events.txt
events\soa_heresy_events.txt
events\soa_holy_order_events.txt
events\soa_jewish_events.txt
events\soa_misc_religious_events.txt
events\soa_muslim_schools.txt
events\soa_various_events.txt
events\sunset_invasion.txt
events\wol_carousing_events.txt
events\wol_family_events.txt
events\wol_intrigue_events.txt
events\wol_lover_events.txt
events\wol_rulership_events.txt
events\wol_scholarship_events.txt
events\wol_seduction_events.txt

List of all affected lines: http://pastebin.com/3BJEC1iG
Above list produced by script (in root CK2 dir):

import glob

with open('out.txt', 'w') as out:
    for path in sorted(glob.glob('events/*.txt')):
        with open(path, encoding='cp1252') as f:
            result = ['{}: {!r}'.format(i, line) for i, line in enumerate(f) if '\xA0' in line]
        if result:
            result.insert(0, path)
            print(*result, sep='\n\t', file=out)

 

[CyberSpyder]

Yeah, I reported that a day or three ago. (I'm the someone who found it, in your link). Says it's been passed on to the lead scripter, so hopefully the next patch will take care of it.