Corrupt log file

[F-3000]

Hello! I got this fancy problem, that my laptop crashed while I was playing, and the log file got corrupted. I believe that tintin's log writing was interrupted in a middle of a symbol, which is now broken. I'm unable to open it with my ordinary editors (Geany, pluma), as they complain about unknown encoding. I can, however, open it with things like nano and less, propably with muchos other terminal tools.

How can I fix the log file?

I already tried to edit out anything that "grep --color='auto' -P -n "[\x80-\xFF]" file" gave out, but no help. While that of course was a futile efford, because if the symbol is broken, it's not valid \xXX symbol at all.

Windows (7) tips accepted as well.

Oh, I was not smart enough to check the file before continuing playing, thus the corrupted point is not at the end of the file, but in middle of it.

[Erelei]

Is the file that important? And writing to a log shouldn't be an issue, even if you crash mid-way writing to it. I write to logs depending on year, month, day, then time_.log.

What code do you use to log?

I'd suggest something like the following:

#event {SESSION CONNECTED} {
        #script {logFilePath} {date +'logs/%Y/%B/%d/'};
        #script {logFileName} {date +'%I_%M%p.log'};
        #system {mkdir -p ${logFilePath[1]}};
        #log {overwrite} {${logFilePath[1]}${logFileName[1]}}
}

Simple, and easy to use.

[F-3000]

It has some things I should take note of - I remember adding markers during playing, I just can't recall what they were about.

I shall change the logging so that whenever logging is started, it'll start a new file, instead of append to old.

I have this currently:

#action {^Prepare yourself. For you are about to <Enter> the Forsaken Lands!$}{.login}

#alias {.login}
{
	#read ./prefs/$character;
	#if {"$class" != ""} {
		#if {$_system[affects_connected]} {#chat message affects {class: $class}};
		#read class_based_stuff/$class;
		#if {"$cabal" != ""} {#read class_based_stuff/$cabal;};
	} {
		#showme <faa>MISSING CLASS INFO!;
	};
	_start_logging;
	#read tickers.tin;
	_create_container_aliases_;
};

#alias {_start_logging}
{
	#if {"$character" == ""} {
		#showme <faa>Variable \$character not set! Wont start logging!;
		#return {#NOP};
	};
	#format year %t %Y;
	#format file {%s_%t.txt} $character %m-%d;
	#log {a} {logs/$year/$file};
	#showme <818>Logging to file "$file" ...;
}

Logging will start only when I enter the game with a character, and in case relogin after lost connection (ie. when crashing tintin (loops are so lovely), when that "Prepare yourself." wont appear) I can type .login to trigger that stuff.