Special characters in ID

TDVM · August 23

It's a little unclear why special characters can be used at all. In fact, it's a real workaround to the teabagging rule or any other rule where you have to write to a player, at least because you can't write a nickname/ID. All it takes is one ê or any other similar character for you to write to that player. There are players who have one or two similar characters, but there are also those who have long IDs consisting of many characters. ß ä ã ќ ό Æ æ and there are many such symbols.

I would like to know the answer from ZOS on this issue and whether there will be any changes in the ban on the use of special characters in IDs

Aislinna · August 23

Pretty sure those are legitimate letters in non-English alphabets, German or Danish for instance. If you are using an English keyboard those letters can be achieved by pressing special character combinations, but on a non-English keyboard, they would be regular letter keys to press. As ESO is an international game, I wouldn't hold out hope that those characters will be removed from use.

TaSheen · August 23

Screenshot when you need to see the name with the special characters. Then (if you're on PC, and I have no clue about console) open Character Map, and chase the individual characters down. Usually the first set of characters in the Map will have most of them from non-English keyboards.

zaria · August 24

Aislinna wrote: »

Pretty sure those are legitimate letters in non-English alphabets, German or Danish for instance. If you are using an English keyboard those letters can be achieved by pressing special character combinations, but on a non-English keyboard, they would be regular letter keys to press. As ESO is an international game, I wouldn't hold out hope that those characters will be removed from use.

This like ØÆÅ from Norway.

LordGavus · August 24

I dont think banning legitimate letters, just because they're not English, is going to happen. And it shouldn't.
Letters like ßäë might cause some issues with reporting, but you can do similar stuff in English. IllIlIIll, depending on font that can be very difficult to separate i from l. Maybe we should ban those letters too.

AlnilamE · August 24

One of my characters has an ï instead of an i in the name because the name I wanted to use was taken.

jonenuka · August 24

TDVM wrote: »

It's a little unclear why special characters can be used at all. In fact, it's a real workaround to the teabagging rule or any other rule where you have to write to a player, at least because you can't write a nickname/ID. All it takes is one ê or any other similar character for you to write to that player. There are players who have one or two similar characters, but there are also those who have long IDs consisting of many characters. ß ä ã ќ ό Æ æ and there are many such symbols.

I would like to know the answer from ZOS on this issue and whether there will be any changes in the ban on the use of special characters in IDs

这可能不是字符而是一些国家的文字我认为

vsrs_au · August 24

TDVM wrote: »

It's a little unclear why special characters can be used at all. In fact, it's a real workaround to the teabagging rule or any other rule where you have to write to a player, at least because you can't write a nickname/ID. All it takes is one ê or any other similar character for you to write to that player. There are players who have one or two similar characters, but there are also those who have long IDs consisting of many characters. ß ä ã ќ ό Æ æ and there are many such symbols.

I would like to know the answer from ZOS on this issue and whether there will be any changes in the ban on the use of special characters in IDs

What special characters? The ones you mentioned are normal for various non-English languages, and *should* be allowed in character names.

MJallday · August 24

Find the player again, highlight, circle wheel , report

Job done