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Special characters in structure names?

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Tess Emmagan
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2017-04-04 11:03:12 UTC
I'm trying some things with structures lately, but when I want to give it a name with even the most basic special characters in it, it gives me an error: "Name contains illegal characters.". Yet I see structures everywhere that have the exact same characters in their name?

What gives? I just want a simple name like "T2 Modules/Drones/Ammo" but it won't let me.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#2 - 2017-04-04 13:47:27 UTC
It used to be that people could call them pretty much anything.

Then people abused that. And now we can't have nice things.

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Tess Emmagan
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2017-04-05 08:27:38 UTC
So no special characters at all? Not even a simple dash? Ugh, CCPlease.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#4 - 2017-04-05 23:43:47 UTC
Probably to avoid ASCII art.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#5 - 2017-04-06 11:13:05 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Probably to avoid ASCII art.



It's also to avoid things like using unicode to have two structures named (as far as the eye can tell) exactly the same thing.

There are a number of unicode characters which are (depending on the font) exactly the same as another.

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Tau Cabalander
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Working Stiffs
#6 - 2017-04-06 12:49:49 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Probably to avoid ASCII art.

It's also to avoid things like using unicode to have two structures named (as far as the eye can tell) exactly the same thing.

There are a number of unicode characters which are (depending on the font) exactly the same as another.

That's a given. I was referring to the ban on simple ASCII punctuation characters, not Unicode.
Wibla
Tactical Narcotics Team
#7 - 2017-04-17 19:26:10 UTC
What about characters like #%& ? they're pretty useful for sorting citadels by function in systems, and they pose no risk for impersonating another citadel (heh).