lastchancetop Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Hello, does anyone own a list of special symbols that can be used for your display name and will be shown corectly after changing your name? Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 (edited) From the Knowledge Base: 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) Residents have found that some random characters will also work, but the best idea is to avoid using them altogether. They cannot be read reliably by many scripts (including ones in important things like vendors and rent boxes), or by human beings (like DJ's and other people who can get frustrated easily). Edited September 12, 2021 by Rolig Loon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KT Kingsley Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 One useful tool is the Windows Character Map utility. Also, have a look at this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters. Note that not all Unicode characters are supported by everyone's systems. But really, only use the Unicode characters that may be specific to your native language's alphabet that you need to show your chosen display name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Crisp Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 This and special fonts are why I can’t use “display name only” in the viewer when I DJ. It’s too handy to be able to see a legible, correct pronunciation of a guest’s name after the arrival HUD feeds me fancy punctuation and those added spaces cause a chunk of the name not to appear 🙂 I look around and read the system name before I try to pronounce “::-+$$$Fu” :—D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arduenn Schwartzman Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=Last+Chance+Top However, if you decide to use ረልነፕ ርዘልክርቿ ፕዐየ or ɭครՇ ςђคภςє Շ๏ק then don't be surprised if people just call you Chuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odaks Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Easy. "Hello and welcome, whoeverthehellyouare". If people use unintelligable characters for their display name, they really mustn't be upset about unintelligible replies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da5id Weatherwax Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 (edited) Hate 'em. Use 'em and to me your name is either your username or - if I'm feeling uncharitable - "Mr/Ms Gobbledi*****" Guess the forum filters pick up Golf Oscar Oscar Kilo as a racial slur against Vietnamese even if its part of a word Well, since it WASNT that, I aint changing it. Edited September 15, 2021 by Da5id Weatherwax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimmi Zehetbauer Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 35 minutes ago, Odaks said: Easy. "Hello and welcome, whoeverthehellyouare". If people use unintelligable characters for their display name, they really mustn't be upset about unintelligible replies. And they get pissed if you call them by their system name if you can't read the gobbledy***** . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odaks Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 1 minute ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said: And they get pissed if you call them by their system name if you can't read the gobbledy***** But, as someone once said (forget who, sorry), "all the cool kids are doing it"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyssa Greymoon Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said: And they get pissed if you call them by their system name if you can't read the gobbledy***** The people I find really annoying are the ones who insist on using system names for avatars with display names with no special characters in them. Edited September 15, 2021 by Lyssa Greymoon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
So Whimsy Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 47 minutes ago, Lyssa Greymoon said: The people I find really annoying are the ones who insist on using system names for avatars with display names with no special characters in them. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Lyssa Greymoon said: The people I find really annoying are the ones who insist on using system names for avatars with display names with no special characters in them. Some people may not have display names showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Or may be new enough to SL that they don't know that display names are a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyssa Greymoon Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Display names are on by default. The people who don’t know about them are the ones running around with the terrible name they made when they signed up. People who aren’t seeing them definitely know about them and turned them off on purpose. IMO, even if I hated Unicode bling names, I’d leave display names on because usernames are the worst. if someone uses usernames, I assume they’re a bot. There’s my pettiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 (edited) As a small sample of one, I can say that I have used my username since Day One (admittedly well before display names were an option). I've never felt a need for a display name. I kinda like what I have. 🙂 Oh, and I am not a bot. Edited September 15, 2021 by Rolig Loon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyssa Greymoon Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 (edited) By using usernames, I meant when referring to other players by their usernames. I guess that could be read either way, sorry. Yeah, if I’d been able to get “Loon” I’d never change it either. Edited September 15, 2021 by Lyssa Greymoon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinRey Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 5 hours ago, Odaks said: But, as someone once said (forget who, sorry), "all the cool kids are doing it"! That was long ago. It's still ok if the name is readbable or the namee doesnt mind being called by stupid nicknames but cool? Nope! Genuine non-English display names, however, that's a completely different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da5id Weatherwax Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 58 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said: As a small sample of one, I can say that I have used my username since Day One (admittedly well before display names were an option). I've never felt a need for a display name. I kinda like what I have. 🙂 Oh, and I am not a bot. Totally likewise - Like yourself, when I signed up you had to pick from a list of surnames and then find a first name that wasn't taken with it. I wanted to use my real first name but, predictably, both "Dave" and "David" were already taken with any surname I fancied. Hence the 5 which can be read as a Roman V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 52 minutes ago, Lyssa Greymoon said: By using usernames, I meant when referring to other players by their usernames. I guess that could be read either way, sorry. Yeah, if I’d been able to get “Loon” I’d never change it either. 😎 There are only a handful of us Loons around still -- a proud and creative clan. Having posted my kneejerk response, I see that I really did take your comment the wrong way, for which I too apologize. As I think about it now, though, ..... I still hang with a group of about a dozen friends who all came into SL in the last months of 2006 and the first months of 2007, all of whom still use the usernames we chose at the time and none of whom has ever used a display name. As a result, we always refer to each other by username. ( And none of us is a bot. We're just old fogeys. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimmi Zehetbauer Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Rolig Loon said: 😎 There are only a handful of us Loons around still -- a proud and creative clan. Having posted my kneejerk response, I see that I really did take your comment the wrong way, for which I too apologize. As I think about it now, though, ..... I still hang with a group of about a dozen friends who all came into SL in the last months of 2006 and the first months of 2007, all of whom still use the usernames we chose at the time and none of whom has ever used a display name. As a result, we always refer to each other by username. ( And none of us is a bot. We're just old fogeys. ) And I think I only saw 1 or 2 Zehetbauer's around. Most common name I've seen in world was "Voom." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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