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Lee Ludd
Scripted doors & windows
Join date: 16 May 2005
Posts: 243
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12-01-2005 07:54
I want to concatinate a list of avatar names into a single string, delimited by a character that cannot be found in any avatar name. Does anybody know a character that is forbidden in an avatar name.
Apparently common punctuation marks and symbols are ok (e.g. $ or '('), because I tried to register an avatar with these things in his name, and the registration procedure accepted them (but I didn't go all the way).
When I tried John+Henry as a first name, the system said that "John Henry" was available, so maybe the plus sign would be a good delimiter.
It would be nice to have an "official" pronouncement about this, since a bad choice might come back to haunt me some day.
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Seifert Surface
Mathematician
Join date: 14 Jun 2005
Posts: 912
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12-01-2005 11:34
I've never seen a 3 word name, that is one with more than exactly one space in it, and from seeing the names people come up with, I'm quite certain they would have put in a space if they could have.
So I would seperate with a space, and know that there is exactly one space in each avatar name.
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Intent Unknown
Registered User
Join date: 16 Nov 2005
Posts: 82
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12-01-2005 11:54
From: Lee Ludd
Apparently common punctuation marks and symbols are ok (e.g. $ or '('), because I tried to register an avatar with these things in his name, and the registration procedure accepted them (but I didn't go all the way).
I'm not sure this is correct. I can't get the registration page to accept anything other than alphanumeric characters for the first name. |
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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12-01-2005 12:43
Can we do uh accents, 'cuz we're, um, International and schtuff?
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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12-01-2005 12:50
two spaces.
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
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Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
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