Garble your chat messages

[Saiket]

Note: This doesn't seem to work on EU clients.

I remember seeing a post about how to make chat "look funny" on here a while ago, but it wasn't described well and was hard or impossible to reproduce.

I just found that any undisplayed ASCII character now turns into a "?" and gets displayed over top of the character following it (I think this is a new "feature" of the 2.2 patch). Here's what that looks like in chat:





Garbled Text Macro:

Naturally I wrote a macro to do it for me; here's the result. It takes any chat message and sends a garbled version wherever you want.

/run local t,p,m="WHISPER","Saiket","Can you read a word of this?"SendChatMessage(gsub(m,"[33-128]",function(c)return"\31"..c;end),t,nil,p)

• "WHISPER" - The type of chat message, like "SAY" or "YELL". Possible values are listed at WoWWiki.
• "Saiket" - If you're using the "WHISPER" chat type above, this specifies your whisper target. This example would send the tell to the character Saiket. If you use the "CHANNEL" chat type, this is the channel number to send to. Note that channel numbers should not have quotes around them. You can leave this alone for other chat types.
• "Can you..." - The message you want to send.

Note: All of the above fields must be surrounded in quotes like the example, except when specifying a channel number for the "CHANNEL" chat type.


This may not be very useful, but I thought it was worth sharing.

[s_t_f_u0]

haha thats pretty sweet. Never seen somethin like that before. +rep

[illogic]

wow real nice lol ima spam alot now!

[Skream]

The spam is strong with this one, it is.
lol +repzorz

[treyska]

nice detailed explanation. +rep

[holydivah]

I didn't know WoW's engine could recognize this code in macros.

Couldn't you do this to a GM to confuse them?

Would rep if I could.

[Saiket]

Couldn't you do this to a GM to confuse them?

You probably could, but that's assuming that GMs answer tickets from inside WoW. If they use some sort of special GM chat program, it might look different. Not much to worry about though, because it would most likely just look like normal text with no garbage to them. Worst case scenario would make your text look like "□C□h□a□t□ □M□e□s□s□a□g□e", although that's unlikely.

[psyco1999]

/confirm

[Eratoc]

Awesome!
+2rep.

What program did you use for censuring?

[lolboll]

how do i do to send it in a channel?

[Saiket]

What program did you use for censuring?

I used GIMP 2.2 (it's free). I selected the entire name and used the Gaussian Blur filter in the Filters->Blur menu. Then in the Gaussian Blur popup, I set Horizontal Blur radius to 10 px and left Vertical Blur radius at 5 px.

how do i do to send it in a channel?

Set the chat type to "CHANNEL" and the whisper target to the channel number to send to. For example, the following version of the macro will send to channel two:

/run local t,p,m="CHANNEL",2,"WTS ..."SendChatMessage(gsub(m,"[33-128]",function(c)return"\31"..c;end),t,nil,p)

Remember that channel numbers can change if you join or leave other channels, and that the numbers can vary from character to character. If Trade channel messages look like "[2. Trade] [Saiket]: WTS ...", you know that using the number 2 will send to the trade channel.

Keep in mind that garbled item links will probably disconnect you. I haven't tested them, but be warned about garbling them.

[tazmansk]

This dosent work for me for some reason...

EU servers patch 2.2.0

If this helps :

/run local t,p,m="WHISPER","Zeuvz","Can you read a word of this?"SendChatMessage(gsub(m,"[33-128]",function(c)return"31"..c;end),t,nil,p)

[Rawrbomb]

I gona have to try that heh

[GunOA]

Doesn't work for me.

[Mikemaladar]

Doesn't work for me either.. Just sends it normally