* Patch from Melanie provides Util.CleanString and uses it on the prim name and description. Thanks Melanie.

OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs

@@ -222,10 +222,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
                     output.Append(": ");
                 }
 
-                if (bytes[bytes.Length - 1] == 0x00)
+				output.Append(CleanString(UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes, 0, bytes.Length - 1)));
-                    output.Append(UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes, 0, bytes.Length - 1));
-                else
-                    output.Append(UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes));
             }
             else
             {
@@ -406,5 +403,31 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
         {
             return lluuid.UUID.ToString("n");
         }
+
+		public static string CleanString(string input)
+		{
+			if(input.Length == 0)
+				return input;
+
+			int clip=input.Length;
+
+			// Test for ++ string terminator
+			int pos=input.IndexOf("\0");
+			if(pos != -1 && pos < clip)
+				clip=pos;
+
+			// Test for CR
+			pos=input.IndexOf("\r");
+			if(pos != -1 && pos < clip)
+				clip=pos;
+
+			// Test for LF
+			pos=input.IndexOf("\n");
+			if(pos != -1 && pos < clip)
+				clip=pos;
+
+			// Truncate string before first end-of-line character found
+			return input.Substring(0, clip);
+		}
     }
 }

OpenSim/Region/Environment/Scenes/InnerScene.cs

@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.Environment.Scenes
             {
                 if (PermissionsMngr.CanEditObject(remoteClient.AgentId, group.UUID))
                 {
-                    group.SetPartName(name, primLocalID);
+                    group.SetPartName(Util.CleanString(name), primLocalID);
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.Environment.Scenes
             {
                 if (PermissionsMngr.CanEditObject(remoteClient.AgentId, group.UUID))
                 {
-                    group.SetPartDescription(description.Replace("\0",""), primLocalID);
+                    group.SetPartDescription(Util.CleanString(description), primLocalID);
                 }
             }
         }

OpenSim/Region/Environment/Scenes/SceneObjectGroup.cs

@@ -1086,7 +1086,6 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.Environment.Scenes
         /// <param name="name"></param>
         public void SetPartName(string name, uint localID)
         {
-            name = name.Remove(name.Length - 1, 1);
             SceneObjectPart part = GetChildPart(localID);
             if (part != null)
             {