Hi there, netrek.beeseenterprises.com is a Sturgeon public server. Some of the bots have amassed very large "Offense" and "Defense" ratings, so much so that the player list in netrek-client-cow shows them as garbled characters. Further investigation reveals that ftoa() is not designed to emit negative numbers properly, and that for some reason, the client tries to call ftoa() on a negative number when displaying these bots' ratings. The attached patch replaces the garbled characters with '??????'. Further investigation is needed to root cause the problem. It's unclear whether or not this is a problem with the server. Regards, Kevin -- Kevin Zheng kevinz5000 at gmail.com | kevinz at berkeley.edu XMPP: kevinz at eecs.berkeley.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0001-Emit-if-ftoa-is-given-a-negative-fval.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 1110 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20200430/78e17569/attachment.bin>