Keyboard support - Scandinavian letters

PoXeeD · February 2015

Hello!

TL;DR: Fix our letters in game!

This topic has been discussed in several posts before on the "Customer Support" forum but haven't (to my knowledge) been fixed or adressed by the devs (correct me if i'm wrong). So I'll post it here hoping they will at least respond!

Certain characters/letters for Scandinavian keyboards are missing in the game, e.g Å, Ø, Æ etc. This is an major inconvenience and it was first brought up in the beta. I mean BETA! That is ages ago!

Please bump this and spread awareness. It's beyond silly at this point...

EDIT: { So @ZOS_GinaBruno‌, do you guys have an answer for us? =( }

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vontariel · February 2015

Same for polish letters: ą ę ć ź ż ń.

Barta057 · February 2015

Is there a reason you can't just use an a, e, c, z, or n and have everyone assume what word you meant? Like...If it's close enough, except for one or two letters, I'm sure that the message can be conveyed.

Rosveen · February 2015

They finally added support for ñ on PTS, that's something.

Jitterbug · February 2015

Jitterbug · February 2015

Barta057 wrote: »

Is there a reason you can't just use an a, e, c, z, or n and have everyone assume what word you meant? Like...If it's close enough, except for one or two letters, I'm sure that the message can be conveyed.

that is by no means the point though...

PoXeeD · February 2015

Jitterbug wrote: »

Jitterbug: Haha good one...

Jitterbug wrote: »

Barta057 wrote: »

Is there a reason you can't just use an a, e, c, z, or n and have everyone assume what word you meant? Like...If it's close enough, except for one or two letters, I'm sure that the message can be conveyed.

that is by no means the point though...

Exactly. Of course people can make themselfs understood in one way or another, that is not the point. This is a tripple A game and should support the native letters to each contry this game has been shipped to.

Jitterbug · February 2015

also, at least in danish, many words have a completely different meaning if spelled out with o in stead of ø and so on... leaving me to type oe or 0 for ø and aa for å and ae for æ.
it's like playing an mmo in the 19th century.

vontariel · February 2015

While it's true it's understandable, some sentences get utterly different meaning when written without proper letters. Its' xxi century.

NewBlacksmurf · February 2015

Often times the use of "special characters" in names can prevent or cause problems with in-game functions like adding a friend, inviting to a group or guild.

Maybe it's something linked to one of those

AngryNord · February 2015

Æ can be used, actually, but not ø and å

SanderBuraas · February 2015

This isn't hard to implement, and should be as soon as possible. It's just a nuisance having to replace several characters when typing.

helediron · February 2015

Barta057 wrote: »

Is there a reason you can't just use an a, e, c, z, or n and have everyone assume what word you meant? Like...If it's close enough, except for one or two letters, I'm sure that the message can be conveyed.

Is thr a rason you can't just us an a, c, z, or n and hav vryon assum what word you mant? Lik...If it's clos nough, xcpt for on or two lttrs, I'm sur that th mssag can b convyd.

Yah, right...

dharbert · February 2015

The main reason that characters like that aren't added is because you can't message or invite players with special characters in their name. More importantly, you can't block/ignore players with special characters in their name.

vontariel · February 2015

@dharbert‌
As far as i know you can't have name with special characters in either accout or character name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_characters).

Those you are referring to are diacritical signs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic), and in many languages (Slavic, Germanic, Finno-Ugric) ARE normal letters.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · February 2015

International character sets are demonstrably difficult for ZOS developers to master. English, German and French are supported, and now finally Spanish. Expecting them to ever support Swedish, Danish and Norwegian is probably futile, even though they would only have to add a few more characters (å æ ø).

Master_Fluff · February 2015

This is soo typical of many US corporations/governement agencies: as soon as they encounter a language with more letters than the English alphabet they refuse to recognise the differing letters as real.