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Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees
Kemp,
How hard did you scrub the files? I mean, it took me a few hours to find and replace all the special characters included in both name files.
That's not to say that you did not put in the same effort, of course! But maybe you are still seeing characters that you did not know existed and therefore could not find and replace. Some of them looked pretty exotic and it would not have occurred to me to look for them - I wore out the Page Down key and my eyes in the process.
I'm still going to try Church's suggestion with what I think are clean names.txt and first_names.txt files, which I wanted to include here in the public interest. Unfortunately, even zipped the names.txt file is still 295KB, too large to upload. I was able, though to upload the file that I used to track the edits: Characters_Replaced.txt. You might want to take a look at that.
As I said, I am going to try my revised files out tonight, but since I play out every game of my season, it could take me some time to notice if and when they work for new player creation in conjunction with Church's procedure. If anyone else tries this in the meantime, would you please post your results here? Thanks.
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I only use 3 name sets, 39 (Historic US), 12 (Swedish) and 1 (Hispanic) so it was much easier for me to scrub. I did global search and replaces on most of the special characters and I'm pretty sure I got them all.
Regardless, when I tested Church's suggestion, I got a player in my test leagues' amateur draft with a special character and I went back and specifically checked that name. It was "clean" in my new names.txt file which leads me to believe that the work around didn't work.
But feel free to give it a shot! If you think you are seeing something different, please let me know.