Quote Originally Posted by 'Tehtsuo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157578#post 157578


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Quote Originally Posted by 'Tehtsuo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157557#post 157557
It's been mentioned several times in this thread that special characters violate the naming policy - they don't. Take some time to read through the naming policy - http://us.blizzard.com/support/artic...l=true?rhtml=y
It's been said it used to violate the naming policy. Sometime around BC they removed that clause from the naming policy, and now they're putting it back in.
If you read the post, the words "used to" are pretty clearly left out. Also, Blizzard has not announced they are putting it back into the naming policy.
So at this point are you just arguing about semantics? The original post links to a blue saying that they do not allow special characters in names now. While it hasn't shown up in the official naming policy and probably isn't reportable, you have it from a blue that this change is intended.

I can understand you want to have the same name on your characters, really. Keep in mind that a lot of people are just flat out sick of special characters in people's names, it's mostly just a matter of opinion.

It would appear that the ascii characters were allowed back in as an oversight of some kind, which is why (after seeing such a huge influx of new ascii names) they suddenly reigned it back in. If that's true or not, who knows? None of us work for blizzard and can say for sure. I cannot find any kind of cached version of an older copy of the official blizzard naming policy so in my opinion I don't think that the wording on it has changed.

[s]Can we stop beating this dead horse now?[/s] (Answer to this is below.)