How to find out what characters you can have in display name?

[WhiteBoi360]

I see everyone with cool characters in their display name..   I found a notecard with these symbols..

But when I get mine looking how I want it, I paste it into the area where you change your display name,  but it's telling me I have invalid characters in it :(

Spent alot of time makin it look good too! lol

 

This is what I'm trying to use:

Ɗ˩ Ⱳhíţϵ 乃øⅈ

[Ansariel Hiller]

Sorry, but what do you want with that? That's not cool and not even 1337, but it is unreadable UTF8-garbage and it is extremely annoying to meet people and not able to read their names. Better stick to normal default ASCII characters. Oh, did I mention that the web profiles can't even show all Unicode characters you may use for display names?

Oh, and no, there doesn't seem to be a list of valid characters - at least not that I am aware of.

[Innula Zenovka]

According to the KB article you can use pretty much any unicode alpha-numerical character you want (whether other people's viewers can display them depends, of course, on what they happen to have loaded in their computer) plus a limited range of  punctuation characters, which the article lists.

[LoveAngeL Lyre]

Hello WhiteBoi. I will agree with Ansariel that is really annoying to meet people and to be unable to read their names. That's why i have always them disabled. On the other side i respect your desire and for sure is your right to create any display name you wish, if it is allowed of course. About your question now you can check the following link:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewerhelp:2.3.0/Display_name

Also in Marketplace you can find products (in fact they are notecards / almost free) with unlimited ASCII / UNICODE symbols you can use for your display name. Have fun!

[Ansariel Hiller]

/me thinks she should dump UTF8 overview tables and sell it for lots and lots and lots and lots of money...

[Peewee Musytari]

LOL someone else posted earlier about the same thing http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/Why-do-I-receive-a-message-saying-invalid-characters-when-I-try/qaq-p/870505

Why do you all want those annoying names?? Maybe LL has blocked them at last YAY!!

[Ansariel Hiller]

Didn't I say it's catching?

[Rolig Loon]

Sheesh! I hope not. I absolutely refuse to respond to Display Names, especially these unpronounceable garbage names. Who in heaven's name ever decided that they are "cool"?

[eyeye Afterthought]

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WhiteBoi360 wrote:

 

Spent alot of time makin it look good too! lol

 

 

Ɗ˩ Ⱳhíţϵ 乃øⅈ

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Dude, it really doesn't look good. its like when Prince did that thing and turned his name into a symbol. Uncool as hell.