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Getting kicked with "Illegal Characters in chat" when using a nick with &

Agaloth opened this issue ยท 2 comments

commented

Type of bug

Other unexpected behaviour

/ess dump all output

https://essentialsx.net/dump.html?id=218b2384b3f745e38f256dcfb8bfa4db

Error log (if applicable)

No response

Bug description

When a player is using colors in his nickname, the server kicks him.

Example: /nick &4Agaloth

Steps to reproduce

  1. Do /nick and use a color like this: /nick &4Agaloth

Expected behaviour

The player should have a nickname with the color.

Actual behaviour

The player gets kicked for "Illegal Characters in chat"

commented

[12:31:47 INFO]: Agaloth issued server command: /nick &8test
[12:31:47 INFO]: Agaloth lost connection: Illegal characters in chat

I'm using [12:46:19 INFO]: Essentials version 2.20.0-dev+5-0ca58ce

commented

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's either your server software or one of your 100+ plugins... please try disabling plugins until you cannot reproduce this. If you disable EVERY plugin besides Essentials and this still happens, try running Paper. If it STILL occurs, please let us know.