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starsucks
233 Posts
how do I implement special characters in my ingame name? The ASCII Codes for µ (the one I want) aren't working. I also can't copy and paste it. But there has to be a way since LaLush and the other Millienium Gamers have this double dagger ‡ in their name. Hope someone can help. Thx in advance. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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arb
Noobville17921 Posts
On April 19 2011 10:46 skyR wrote: Lalush doesn't have ‡ in his name =\ You can't use special characters or numbers in your name afaik. theres people with that symbol in their name, im not quite sure how though maybe try alt + the code or something, if that doesnt work im not really sure | ||
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apm66
Canada943 Posts
On April 19 2011 10:46 skyR wrote: Lalush doesn't have ‡ in his name =\ You can't use special characters or numbers in your name afaik. Yes, Lalush does. http://www.sc2ranks.com/eu/1715308/MǂToD http://www.sc2ranks.com/eu/211474/MǂLalush | ||
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dUTtrOACh
Canada2339 Posts
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leova
266 Posts
On April 19 2011 10:52 dUTtrOACh wrote: I'm pretty sure the only characters you're allowed to use - at least in the North American version, are the 26 letters of the alphabet. Validation rules and whatnot... yup, notice both of those links are to EU profiles | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
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MuteZephyr
Lithuania448 Posts
EDIT: Oh, nevermind. Didn't realize you couldn't copy paste that symbol either. I don't know then. The above is just what I've heard. | ||
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jermo
Canada46 Posts
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Pervect
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Dubpace
United States251 Posts
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Pughy
Wales662 Posts
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AnodyneSea
Jamaica757 Posts
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starsucks
233 Posts
I have found several strange symbols bei accident which can't be pasted either but failed to find µ and the dagger. This leads me to believe that there is actually a combination but totally differnt to the ones known. IM going to try some more. I rly hope Lalush shows up. ^^ | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
I really want to know how it is done. Maybe I should open up a thread on the b.net forums although they staff might be reluctant to tell the method. | ||
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Valckrie
United Kingdom533 Posts
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sVnteen
Germany2238 Posts
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starsucks
233 Posts
I was thinking about your suggestion, too. But you have to change you name ingame and it looks just like when you gave yourself your name, so I don't see why something like this should. I also believe that a lot of the Millenium people changed their name afterwards (For example Tarson was not always M‡Tarson and he didn't make up a new account) and I still fail to add the dagger which seems pretty common. | ||
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GagnarTheUnruly
United States655 Posts
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starsucks
233 Posts
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Mikau
Netherlands1446 Posts
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
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starsucks
233 Posts
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Brainyac
Germany199 Posts
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NepTuniO
United Kingdom57 Posts
http://www.sc2ranks.com/eu/2022129/ƽƺǁƬheǾneǁ It's pretty easy to do actually. See my post couple responses down | ||
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legatus legionis
Netherlands559 Posts
On April 19 2011 23:20 NepTuniO wrote: http://www.sc2ranks.com/eu/2022129/ƽƺǁƬheǾneǁ A profile I made for practising It's pretty easy to do actually Then I'm sure you wouldn't mind explaining it a bit even though it might seem excessive to you. I have no idea how you did it and what you found out, for example what the boundaries are etc. I'm sure many would be delighted to hear I've been wondering for a long time if it's possible to make a name in Korean letters on the NA or EU servers. The reason why is because it obivously works on KR, but also because you can actually type Korean in any chat in the game and other people can read it I believe, on the EU client and server that is. Also just like in the windows environment when you switch locale this button comes up indication you are using a different character set. The exact same thing happens in pretty much every single field in the blizzard client, looks like this btw [가] if I'm not mistaken. Would love to hear if it's possible <3 Edit: Thanks again NepTuniO | ||
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NepTuniO
United Kingdom57 Posts
Anything from Latin Extended B is usable. Just insert into your document, then copy across when you make your character name and it shows up in game. Korean letters do not work. I'm not certain, but I think Latin Extended A *might* work too. Some might not work in Latin Extended B, and some others might work. Just play around with it! I copied them one at a time into my name and saw if they showed up or not | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
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starsucks
233 Posts
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html The double dagger can be found under Latin Extended B. So this problem is solved. But µ is greek symbol and the greek unicode table doesn't seem to work. But since there are people with a µ in it I deduce that it can be found under some different table. Searching...... | ||
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Tiazi
Netherlands761 Posts
The heart symbol works. alt + numpad 3. <3 | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
@Nihilon. Over a hundred people seem to have the double dagger. So indeed it might be possible that it will be "fixed". The µ seems really rare. I can only find three people and the normal unicode µ doesn't seem to work. | ||
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Ikuu
United Kingdom97 Posts
On April 19 2011 23:59 Tiazi wrote: Some symbols work. Most symbols dont. The heart symbol works. alt + numpad 3. <3 How do you get that to work? Alt + 3 doesn't work in-game or do you need to do it in Word and paste? | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
Doesn't work for me either. | ||
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dafnay
Angola375 Posts
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
On April 19 2011 23:20 NepTuniO wrote: I made an account called ƽƺǁƬheǾneǁ for practising: http://www.sc2ranks.com/eu/2022129/ƽƺǁƬheǾneǁ It's pretty easy to do actually. See my post couple responses down lol. That is the most epic user name I've ever seen. | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
You mean the heart as part of your character name? Are you trying to change it now? | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On April 19 2011 23:54 starsucks wrote: I'm experimenting at the moment and found this very helpful site. http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html The double dagger can be found under Latin Extended B. So this problem is solved. But µ is greek symbol and the greek unicode table doesn't seem to work. But since there are people with a µ in it I deduce that it can be found under some different table. Searching...... µ is Alt-230 or Alt-0181 and even on the normal German keyboard as AltGr-M since DOS times. On your Unicode page it is under Latin-1 as character 181 and is called "micro sign" and is not "greek small letter mu" from the Greek page. | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
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Zaphid
Czech Republic1860 Posts
On April 20 2011 01:05 starsucks wrote: Thanks Ropid, but I tried all of theses solutions (and yes the Latin-1, too) It does not work. No symbol is displayed, not even an empty square. This leads me to believe that the three people who have it either asked Blizzard specifically for it (which seems unlikely as they are pretty low level player who don't play a lot, so why should they care) or they are using a formally different symbol which just looks like that Latin mu. There's also a third option that Blizzard has blocked it now | ||
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dafnay
Angola375 Posts
On April 20 2011 00:41 starsucks wrote: @dafnay: You mean the heart as part of your character name? Are you trying to change it now? no no , I mean ♥ in text , but still could be awesome to put it as a part of your name :D | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
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starsucks
233 Posts
Are you referring to this heart? Was it really patched out? Highly possible cause in a VOD of HDStarcraft I saw a swastika someone messaged him. @Alejandrisha: It is an EU Account. | ||
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Ikuu
United Kingdom97 Posts
On April 20 2011 02:53 Alejandrisha wrote: Oh man, on the side panel I thought it said "How to use special tac.." we all know the rest. A lot of those characters I see on euro streams and such and think it is just a regional thing. As far as I know you can only use alpha on NA server Appears to be the case, on my US account I can't use any of the Latin B stuff. But it works fine on EU. | ||
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Valckrie
United Kingdom533 Posts
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starsucks
233 Posts
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ReketSomething
United States6012 Posts
Blizzard is ust making people unhappy. There's so reason for blizzard to block symbols besides it being harder to find inappropriate names... Having a tag with either a period, underscore or brackets is so much cooler. Daynine vs day9 vs dayopenbracket9closebracket. By.fantasy vs byfantasy etc....meh | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
Got in contact with Blizzard support. Some pretty cool guys who basically gave me the same advices I have already tried BUT they also didn't tell me that is forbidden to use these symbols. I even sent them the links to the profiles with µ I had found and asked if Blizzard has possibly blocked some symbols afterwards. They told me that they know nothing about any blocking but it could be possible since they don't get all information from the tech team and promised they would check if there were some block. Pretty good support. Next day some girl mailed me with trash talk that they saw I had already changed my name and the problem was obsolte or something. I told them that I haven't picked a new name yet so the problem isn't obsolete. So final answer was that they checked it and came to the conclusion that it isn't possible. No answer to my question how the other players made it. I really don't want to waste anymore time with that problem and will now pick a name without it. Thank you guys for your help and if there is some tremendous change or something I'm going to post it here. | ||
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starsucks
233 Posts
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