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How did he get special characters in his ign? o.o
http://en.mapleeurope.com/Maple.aspx
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Isn't that a language pack, similar to how Korean/Japanese/Chinese characters work? (Looks like Russian letters to me)

lol no, its just alt codes.

they're alt codes for us, but the letters are from the cyrilian (i think that's the way they write it) alphabet, aka russian alphabet. U can see them commonly in the Eastern Europe languages.

i think that's why they accept it

eMS supports additional characters due to the game needing to use those characters for the other languages it supports. The 'z' with an accent didn't surprise me, but the 'o' with the mark through it did. Upon minor research, though, I found 'ø' to be a Danish character. For the curious, 'ž' is used in many Eastern European nations.

ps disregard everything anyone else said in this thread. I am the only one who has all the right answers. It's not alt codes, it's not Russian, it's not Cyrillic.

Its true. That weired looking O is mostly used in Scandinavia, and since EMS supports ALL of Europe (this includes places like Poland and Ukraine) they are allowed to use those symbols. You can probably use that weired looking German B also

If they look like other characters than a z with a little "u" on it, and an o with a strikethrough, then it's an issue with the way your computer is set up. Lots of computers have foreign code pages which will automatically display certain 8 bit character (above ascii) sequences as characters from that language, because it's designed to be used in that language without requiring more complicated (utf8/unicode) encoding.

I think it's alt code 158 for the ž, and 248 for the ø.


edit: @ Rain, it looks a bit like B but it's an S sound, kinda like 'ss' in English.

someone take afrobean's ego back to earth *cough*

eMS supports additional characters due to the game needing to use those characters for the other languages it supports. The 'z' with an accent didn't surprise me, but the 'o' with the mark through it did. Upon minor research, though, I found 'ø' to be a Danish character. For the curious, 'ž' is used in many Eastern European nations.

ps disregard everything anyone else said in this thread. I am the only one who has all the right answers. It's not alt codes, it's not Russian, it's not Cyrillic.

[SIZE="2"]Actually, I've never ever seen that weird z. I can confirm it's not spanish/portugese/dutch/french or italian. Must be from those other European countries no one knows about. >_>

olol nevermind. I just saw the wikipedia article. /dumb

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someone take afrobean's ego back to earth *cough*

Sorry, I just hate it when people speak up without actually being right. I have no problem with people putting forth their take on the matter when it's right (like what Stereo did), but when people say pumpernickel like "it's alt codes" or "it's Russian", I just get pissed off. You guys do realize that people in these European nations actually have these language appropriate characters on their keyboards, right?

Actually, I've never ever seen that weird z. I can confirm it's not spanish/portugese/dutch/french or italian. Must be from those other European countries no one knows about. >_>

Which is why I said it's used in many EASTERN EUROPEAN nations. It's not Spanish or French or Italian or anything. It's Slovenian and Bosnian and Croatian and pumpernickel.

You guys do realize that people in these European nations actually have these language appropriate characters on their keyboards, right?


Which is why I said it's used in many EASTERN EUROPEAN nations. It's not Spanish or French or Italian or anything. It's Slovenian and Bosnian and Croatian and pumpernickel.

[SIZE="2"]Yeah I kinda read that part after I posted, pardon my stupidity.

I can vouch for the keyboard thing. My spanish keyboard came with ñ,Ñ,ç,Ç.[/SIZE]

Sorry, I just hate it when people speak up without actually being right. I have no problem with people putting forth their take on the matter when it's right (like what Stereo did), but when people say pumpernickel like "it's alt codes" or "it's Russian", I just get pissed off. You guys do realize that people in these European nations actually have these language appropriate characters on their keyboards, right?

Yeah, but no one's trying to win a prize. No offense. I thought that Cyrillic alphabet included those letters, and Russian uses that alphabet. I just tried to help. ._.

And mind to sound a bit nicer. =)

Btw, ty for the info. You learn something everyday.

Sorry, I just hate it when people speak up without actually being right. I have no problem with people putting forth their take on the matter when it's right (like what Stereo did), but when people say pumpernickel like "it's alt codes" or "it's Russian", I just get pissed off. You guys do realize that people in these European nations actually have these language appropriate characters on their keyboards, right?

Well, you can't always be right every time. They're just saying what they think is right. They didn't go, "It's Russian. End of story," or anything like that.

lol no, its just alt codes.

Nope. Norwegians got æ, ø and å. French got î, á, à, è, Ç, etc.

I know Swedish got ö, ä and å, and that Danish keyboards use the same layout as Norwegian keyboards, even though I'm not related to them and doesn't use them. (It's kinda common sense.)

And it's not Russian. My computer is not able to read Russian characters, so...

You can probably use that weired looking German B also

It's called Eszett and is actually a double "S", either ß is used for the representation of an "s" in a syllable onset where a normal s would be pronounced "z"

Nope. Norwegians got æ, ø and å. French got î, á, à, è, Ç, etc.

I know Swedish got ö, ä and å, and that Danish keyboards use the same layout as Norwegian keyboards, even though I'm not related to them and doesn't use them. (It's kinda common sense.)

And it's not Russian. My computer is not able to read Russian characters, so...

All the scandinavian countries have ä and ö, Sweden & Norway have å, Norway & Iceland have æ & ø. Basically they all mean the same, just a different character. æ = ä, ø = ö.

EDIT: And eMS is supposed to be for europeans, and all those countries mentioned in the quoted post do belong to Europe, so therefore it's kinda obvious for those characters to be allowed in the names.

It's called Eszett and is actually a double "S", either ß is used for the representation of an "s" in a syllable onset where a normal s would be pronounced "z"

i learned that in my german class =)

at first i was reading "fußball" as fubbball... and my teacher was laughing her head off... and told me it's foossbahl

All the scandinavian countries have ä and ö, Sweden & Norway have å, Norway & Iceland have æ & ø. Basically they all mean the same, just a different character. æ = ä, ø = ö.

EDIT: And eMS is supposed to be for europeans, and all those countries mentioned in the quoted post do belong to Europe, so therefore it's kinda obvious for those characters to be allowed in the names.

Norway doesn't have ä and ö, Iceland doesn't have ø, but ö. I know they are the Swedish version of æ and ø though, considering I'm from Norway.

i learned that in my german class =)

at first i was reading "fußball" as fubbball... and my teacher was laughing her head off... and told me it's foossbahl

the 'a' in it is a high 'a' like, in... how Americans say Dance.

Also, this may turn into a flame fest, if not controlled

The question has been answered, we don't really need anyone else commenting on how they think they are right. Afrobean directed us to the Wikipage for these letters.

who in their sane mind would flame over this?

and i know it's a high a... hence i put the ah ...