ASCII Change - Seems to have be the reverted.

[Sajuuk]

Linking from the WoW boards: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...75622293&sid=1

I tried making a character with special characters and I kept getting a 'Failure' Message.

How lame.

[algol]

About time they figured out how to do simple form validation. A ten year old could do it.

[suicidesspyder]

Well thats strange do you just mean uppercase letters. Cause this past weekend i made names with special caracters like â ä so i was wondering if it was just for the uppercase letters.

[Sajuuk]

It's a very recent change. And it does effect lowercase symbols.

[suicidesspyder]

Oh man dont tell me this i still need to make 8 more chars with the same name as the main im going to cry if i get home this weekend and cant do it. Talk about making it easier for enemies in pvp to single out one player in a multiboxed group. Damn you blizzard.

[algol]

It could be just for moves. But it's an annoying trend that makes Blizzard look like a bunch of noobs. I wouldn't be in the least disappointed if they finally fixed it.

[Ualaa]

As long as they're consistent.

If they remove the ability to make new toons with ascii symbols, then they should force everyone with the symbols to rename their toons too.
If they allow people to keep toons with the ascii symbols then new toons should be able to utilize this feature too.

I'm fine either way.

[Gadzooks]

As long as they're consistent.

If they remove the ability to make new toons with ascii symbols, then they should force everyone with the symbols to rename their toons too.
If they allow people to keep toons with the ascii symbols then new toons should be able to utilize this feature too.

I'm fine either way.

I'd be willing to bet they changed it because of all the asshats who used the ascii chars to make naughty names, as they'd get past the filters, or creating names close to other player's names, to get into guilds (Hey, I'm an alt of <someone>, invite me!) and clean out the guild bank.

Anytime Blizzard takes something away, it's because the idiots are exploiting it.

*sigh*

Nothing new here. I can tell by reading the CSF forum posts that Vrak and Orylia don't want to discuss it, which means it's not a popular change, and is probably causing customer support a lot of headaches - and Vrak's abrupt responses says to me, it ain't changing soon.

[Tehtsuo]

Ummm that's not good. I just moved my paladin to a different server, was going to move my shamans this weekend. Not good at all.

[TheBigBB]

There was a time, back near release, when you'd get a swift name change if you had any of these characters in your name. I was surprised when it started becoming common and seemingly allowed to have them. I wonder why they would take so long to do this if they were going to do it. I always found it annoying for myself, but if other people are okay with having those names, I don't care that much. I assume that this would also be slightly problematic in some European countries.