Not cool. (PB kicks me for my name)

[Temporary]

After changing my Steam Community name (removing all non-ASCII characters), my name is now "Player****" (*** being a random number generated at each map change/new server)

one more bug on the pile...

 

[Dionysos]

Code that doesn't handle unicode/every kind of character is bad code, pure and simple. Measures to exclude perfectly normal characters in perfectly normal countries/regions of the world is just silly.

Edit: I consider this a bug.

 

[zYnthetic]

More specifically, alpha-numeric characters within the ASCII character set are valid. This extends to some other characters as well (dash, underscore, etc...) but I believe UE will not support (display) any alt-characters. Some were even disabled to prevent injections. PB seems to add on an option to kick rather than (the engine default of) removing the character(s), substituting a default name, or substituting the invalid characters.

 

[Temporary]

More specifically, alpha-numeric characters within the ASCII character set are valid. This extends to some other characters as well (dash, underscore, etc...) but I believe UE will not support (display) any alt-characters. Some were even disabled to prevent injections. PB seems to add on an option to kick rather than (the engine default of) removing the character(s), substituting a default name, or substituting the invalid characters.

Sorry to dig a 2 years old thread, but that serious issue still exists, nothing was done regarding it and recently several admins set their Punkbuster level High to include the non-ASCII ban.

I tried everything with the setname command, it's still blocked by TWI.

I really BEG Tripwire Interactive to do something, ANYTHING : rename me to Player79468, let us change our nickname, allow the setname command again (put a timer on that thing if you want !).

I can't do anything (everything is blocked on the client side), most server admins WANT/NEED that Unicode-ban, the only person capable of doing something is Tripwire Interactive.

Please do something, more than half the planet use non-ASCII characters in their daily lives and names, this is a serious issue.