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I'd like to see these characters available in dragon names:

  • .
  • ~
  • ?
  • *

Or, at the very least, an explanation from TJ about why that's not possible.

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The only one of those that has a proper place in a name would be the ., for things like Mr., St., Dr., etc. I can't think of a single valid name that has any of the others, unless you want things like *Farts loudly*, Where's mah tacos???, and ~ Bunny ~ as names...

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I support this. One of my Reds actually has the name "Why can't I use question marks". xd.png

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I can understand having . and ~

 

I could also see allowing things like accents (é) and umlauts (ö) and the tildes actually OVER the letters (ñ) and maybe even these thingies (ç)

 

...but that's all of the ones that make sense to me.

 

I don't like the idea of question marks or even asterisks. Though if those are added, I feel like all the regular characters (!, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ) and whatever else that can be normally typed) should be allowed. Well maybe not @ or #...

 

Okay so I'm undecided.

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I support extra signs, have to admit that sometimes I miss them.

 

But, please, no extra letters, *unless* all of them are included. I mean, I really like the idea of accents and umlauts, but if they are allowed one day, I'd like to see cyrillic, Greek and other letters because otherwise it would be unfair.

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I don't know why special characters aren't already included TBH. I totally support this!

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I would like to see question marks and periods, possibly even exclamation points. I'd like to see accented characters, but I can understand if we don't get them.

 

More pressingly, I'd like to see all standard characters available in descriptions. Why can't I write a description with questions in it?

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+1 support for this, sort of. I'd like to be able to use periods or underscores in names,

but not necessarily things like asterisks or tildes.

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I support this for . and , as they are part of names. Or titles to the names.

 

What I do not support, is further sentence-building stuff like ?, ", or special characters like #$&;+/

Edited by whitebaron

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Whitebaron, apostrophes are already allowed.

Sorry, phone-fail. I meant .

(corrected above)

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I'd like to see / for two-headed dragon use. I could a Bloodscale Fire/Brimstone or something.

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I'd like to see / for two-headed dragon use. I could a Bloodscale Fire/Brimstone or something.

For this purpose, i'd like the ampersand a lot better - Fire & Brimstone. Of course, you can always also use the word "and"

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I'd like to see / for two-headed dragon use. I could a Bloodscale Fire/Brimstone or something.

I'm voting for & as well.

 

' and - are already allowed, so the four I'd like to see added are the comma, ,; the period, .; the exclamation point, !; and the question mark, ?. I would like to use Mr., Mrs. and Dr. in names, and I also use quotes such as "What's He Talking About?" and "If The Square On The Hypotenuse Equals The Sum Of The Square On The Other Two Sides, Why Is A Mouse When It Spins?," both part of this lineage, http://dragcave.net/lineage/7GOvY. It would read better if I could punctuate it properly.

 

Support!

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I think that some things aren't allowed because they mess with the ability to link to a dragon with it's name. And I know that people often suggest using the code, and that's fine, but then we won't be able to look dragons up using their names, either.

 

Also, some of the characters, IIRC (and I'm not sure I do), take up more space than others in the database and that's why we can't use them.

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I support extra signs, have to admit that sometimes I miss them.

 

But, please, no extra letters, *unless* all of them are included. I mean, I really like the idea of accents and umlauts, but if they are allowed one day, I'd like to see cyrillic, Greek and other letters because otherwise it would be unfair.

I can see no umlauts, but I suggest accents, this thing (that I never remember the name of) ç and tilde-n's ñ because we actually use those in English (they're taken from other languages, but we still use them) such as in fiancé and fiancée, façade, and jalapeño.

 

shut up Firefox spellcheck I know you don't recognize the symbols, but I promise they're spelled correctly

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I swear I've seen this topic several times already in different guises and nothing ever happens

 

Support. (Although periods and slashes might mess up urls to be undirectable by name, and question marks are already something of a no-no for the site in descriptions so I don't know if those will ever get in)

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Non-Unicode characters can't be used due to byte size iirc (I've seen the question pop up in regards to signature character count), and I believe other punctuation may mess up the ability to link a dragon by name and that's why they cannot be used.

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Non-Unicode characters can't be used due to byte size iirc (I've seen the question pop up in regards to signature character count), and I believe other punctuation may mess up the ability to link a dragon by name and that's why they cannot be used.

Uhm, check your facts.

 

There is no such thing as non-unicode characters, as unicode is the biggest characterset available. The smallest available characterset is usascii, and it allows for many of the requested signs. (no umlauts, accents, but #&/?,.";:+%()!@)

 

Also, there already IS a precedent for a special character - the blank space. It does not mess up named linking, all you need to do is replace it with %20%. While its hardly intuitive, you can do so for every other character that cannot be used in urls otherwise. (using its ascii code)

 

 

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Also, there already IS a precedent for a special character - the blank space. It does not mess up named linking, all you need to do is replace it with %20%.

actually it's just %20, no second % XD

 

 

 

Also I feel like using named linking as an argument against it is kind of poor, only because you COULD just use the dragon's code :I

I mean, I guess it's kind of neat? I don't see why it's important to use its name... XD

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Well, searching by name comes in handy if you want to see if there is a dragon with a certain name -- you wouldn't know its code in that case.

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I don't know why special characters aren't already included TBH. I totally support this!

I thought it was because some of the characters could be used in SQL injection, but don't quote me as I am most likely wrong.

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