[2.0.0.rc3] Messages with quotes get truncated from Discord to Game

[trevorjd]

Heyo, a fun new one! Discovered that messages "using quotes" mid-sentence when sending from Discord to game get truncated before the first quote mark. Example verified. Messages from game to Discord are not affected. Parentheses do not trigger the bug.

Trevor — Today at 9:43 PM
testing "this part in quotes might not go through" testing
TrevorBot — Today at 9:43 PM
Server: [Trevor] testing

Got a player in-game to send the same message. Came thru to Discord just fine.
charname: testing "this part in quotes might not go through" testing

[LakeYS]

I've replicated and identified the root cause, and it's messy. Adding quotes is breaking the syntax of the commands the bot sends to the game. The only current solution I'm finding is to remove quotes from messages.

I've applied this change immediately in 3108323, as I suspect that this could open up some other nasty issues.

This is obviously not an ideal fix. I'm looking into some ways that we might be able to work around it.

[trevorjd]

Just enough knowledge here to be dangerous but miss important fundamental concepts... at the risk of teaching you how to suck eggs, would it be possible / useful to treat the message internally as HTML so you can use something like & quot ; and similar tokens? Does Discord accept HTML strings?

(lol, github processed my html token and displayed a quote)

[LakeYS]

Discord takes messages in the form of Markdown, i.e. the same as it's used here. Unfortunately, this will not work, as this issue falls in the hands of the game rather than Discord. (I.e. if you type a message with quotes into the game console, it will do the exact same thing that you've replicated in Discord)

My first attempt to fix this was to use an escape character('\'), which Discord and most common software recognizes. Unfortunately, 7 Days to Die does not, which doesn't leave us with many options.