added support for instring variables and made character IDs

be always stored in lowercase

server/src/character.rs

@@ -71,8 +71,11 @@ pub fn character_parse(archive: &mut ZipArchive<File>)
 
 	// Serialise this to a HashMap
 	let characters: HashMap<String, Character> =
-		serde_json::from_str(&file_contents)
-			.map_err (|err| format!("Invalid JSON in characters.json: {err}"))?;
+		serde_json::from_str::<HashMap<String,Character>>(&file_contents)
+			.map_err (|err| format!("Invalid JSON in characters.json: {err}"))?
+			.into_iter()
+			.map(|(k,v)| (k.to_lowercase(), v))
+			.collect();
 	info!("Parsed characters from characters.json");
 	debug!("{characters:?}");
 	Ok(Arc::new(Mutex::new(characters)))