Made characters disappear from the room when their controlling player logs off. This is a trivial thing to customize, but the old default (leave the character objects in the room, although "headless") confused people.

game/gamesrc/objects/baseobjects.py

@@ -95,6 +95,25 @@ class Character(BaseCharacter):
         # expand with whatever customizations you want below...
         # ...
 
+    def at_disconnect(self):
+        """
+        We stove away the character when logging off, otherwise they will remain where 
+        they are, 'headless', so to say.
+        """
+        self.location.msg_contents("%s has left the game." % self.name)
+        self.db.prelogout_location = self.location
+        self.location = None 
+
+    def at_post_login(self):
+        """
+        This recovers the character again after having been "stoved away" at disconnect.
+        """
+        if self.db.prelogout_location:
+            self.location = self.db.prelogout_location
+        else:
+            self.db.prelogout_location = self.location
+        self.location.msg_contents("%s has entered the game." % self.name)
+    
 class Room(BaseRoom):
     """
     Rooms are like any object, except their location is None

src/players/player.py

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ class Player(TypeClass):
         to store attributes all players should have,
         like configuration values etc. 
         """        
+        # the text encoding to use.
+        self.db.encoding = "utf-8"
         pass 
 
     # Note that the hooks below also exist