Posted March 8 Just tried to edit my name to include an umlaut, the two dots you'd see over a vowel. But the system won't let me. Why won't the system allow for accents and marks to be added to user names? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 8 This may have been a recent change. When they initially upgraded the Forum, symbols and accents were used by several members. Lemme check something. Yep, tried a few things that worked before, including a display name change bug that allowed someone to use hidden characters or spaces to use the same display name. They throw an error now. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 9 I experienced this as well. "Recherché," is the proper way to spell my username, but the acute e wouldn't register. Hopefully this gets resolved at one point or another. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 9 Apparently that's how the character restrictions in the usernames are set. Judging by what @Jeric said, I suppose these restrictions were set by administration on purpose, to prevent from abusing that feature. Are members to blame here? Just kidding! I believe only the basic characters are allowed, due to ease of setting these. The rest would have to be specified manually, one after another, hence their lack (?). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
