unable to change name ,AGAIN !!!

[spatieman Balogh 1]

So i was willing to change my name to this 𝓑𝓪𝓷𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓚𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷 ,well, i cant..

i have seen names with styles like this, but for some reason it still changed the name back AGAIN ,to the login name, and says, u can change the name again in 7 days.

what kind of * is this, if i ask it rude....

Edited November 21 by spatieman Balogh

[Mollymews 4,762]

empirical evidence suggests that display names have to be 2 byte UTF-16 characters and cannot be from the 3 byte extended character font set

the font for 𝓑𝓪𝓷𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓚𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷 is a 3 byte character font. The character "𝓪" has a hexadecimal value of 0x01D4EA which is 3 bytes

edit add. empirical meaning that this is what people have discovered. Linden as far as I am aware have neither confirmed or denied it

Edited November 21 by Mollymews

[Rolig Loon 26,272]

According to the Knowledge Base, a Display may contain

• A string of characters up to 31 characters long  that contains at least one alphanumeric character. It can include most Unicode script characters, spaces, and some punctuation.

It then defines 

Allowed characters

In addition to letters and numbers, you can use the following characters in your display name:

• ' (apostrophe)
• - (hyphen-minus)
• . (full stop)
• : (colon)
• · (middle dot)
• ֊ ֊  (Armenian hyphen)
•  (Hebrew geresh)
• ״ (Hebrew gershayim)
• ་ (Tibetan tsheg)
• - (hyphen)
• ’ (right single quotation mark)
• ‧ (hyphenation point)
• = (katakana-hiragana double hyphen)
• · (katakana middle dot)

As Molly says, the characters in 𝓑𝓪𝓷𝔃𝓪𝓲𝓚𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓷 may look like letters but as far as SL is concerned, they are not legal Unicode script characters.  If you get lucky, you can sometimes find fonts that are acceptable, but it's best to stick to the standard set that people and LSL scripts can read easily.

[RowanMinx 4,161]

4 hours ago, Mollymews said:

 

 Linden as far as I am aware have neither confirmed or denied it

Nor does it seem to be or should be a type of issue they need to address.

[LittleMe Jewell 34,541]

Yes, this is definitely something to throw a tantrum over. 

Quite appalling, if I do say so myself.

[RowanMinx 4,161]

All I see anyway on my phone is xXxX xXxX.  Appropriate.

[IttyBittyKitty Littlepaws 0]

You are required to wait 7 days between changes.  I'm assuming the reason is that it takes time for name changes to propagate throughout the SL servers fully, so they decided 7 days would be a good threshold.  Also, it could be to thwart any possible griefing from such abilities.  Lord knows what other reasons.  You simply must wait until the date and time shown.  I hope this helps

[spatieman Balogh 1]

ooh crap,, that is why it wont work, oh wel...

lets wait ,and go for the default again.

[spatieman Balogh 1]

This is odd...

i am able to set my new display name, 𝐏𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐞'𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 ,but it says, that i did not, oh wel, lets wait for systemwide update, pff..

[RowanMinx 4,161]

4 hours ago, spatieman Balogh said:

This is odd...

i am able to set my new display name, 𝐏𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐞'𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 ,but it says, that i did not, oh wel, lets wait for systemwide update, pff..

Looks fine 

[spatieman Balogh 1]

Yes, but not ingame ,it show my login name, while i know i had it before ,hmm, i think i messed up somewhere...

[LittleMe Jewell 34,541]

9 minutes ago, spatieman Balogh said:

Yes, but not ingame ,it show my login name, while i know i had it before ,hmm, i think i messed up somewhere...

My guess is something wrong with the font you are trying to use.  Your web profile has reverted to not showing it either

 

Usually it only reverts back if the system doesn't like the font that you are trying to use.

 

[spatieman Balogh 1]

yhmm,,then it should show my login name....

[Lindal Kidd 17,639]

Maybe your Preferences aren't set to show your Display Name?

[RowanMinx 4,161]

3 hours ago, spatieman Balogh said:

yhmm,,then it should show my login name....

Moral of the story???   Stop using weird fonts!!