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Garbled display when watching games at servers

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From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou)
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Subject: Garbled display when watching games at servers
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 12:09:40 +0200
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by: Janis Papanagnou - Thu, 1 Jun 2023 10:09 UTC

Occasionally I observe games on public servers that have some setting
active which makes me see only garbled characters ("escape codes") on
the screen. These cannot be changed using the 's' key (to change the
character-set for display). - What do I need to view such games?

Janis

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Garbled display when watching games at servers	Janis Papanagnou