I lost the 'é' in my name!

[Andrés]

I got this message when I attempted to update my profile.

Sorry, one of the names you have attempted to use is being rejected.
You may not:

Start your name with a space, a pipe, or a pound mark (hash)
Use an exclamation point, single or double quotes, a semicolon, or a tilde
End your name with a space or a pipe
Have more than one consecutive pipe
Use HTML character representations in your name, such as a non-breaking space.
Use HTML brackets.
Have more than one consecutive underscore
Have more than one consecutive space
Use ASCII control characters
In addition, the board administrator may have restricted high-bit characters.

[PDF]

I suppose you've to type HTML code for your name, for a "é" code is "& e a c u t e ;" -WITHOUT the blanks !!- so itfor your first name type :

A n d r & e a c u t e ; s



edited : it worked so well that the code was interpreted, rendering post useles !! lool

[ May 21, 2002, 16:16: Message edited by: PDF ]

[E. Albright]

Actually, it's probably not HTML for Andrés, but rather ASCII control characters. If you're not using an "English" keyboard, you'll likely have accents and/or accented characters which don't appear in common English. To avoid forcing folks to jump through hoops to use what to them are standard characters, these'll be directly incorporated [my personal experience with this is the French keyboard (oh, 'tis a dream for writting French!), but I'd imagine Andrés' would be similar]. But you can get these ACCs with a standard keyboard, and I tested these for the name: Alt-130 or Alt-0233. Neither worked. Thus, tho' the effect is the same, it looks like the problem isn't HTML...

Frankly, if I were in Andrés' position, I'd politely inquire if this can be changed (tho' I can think of some technical reasons which might justify this decision). This is, after all, a fairly international board, and 'twould be nice if'in folks could use their own (properly accented) names...

E. Albright

[Edit: D'oh! I just noticed your location, PDF! Sorry if I sounded pedantic; I figured I was lecturing another Yank!]

[ May 21, 2002, 16:37: Message edited by: E. Albright ]

[PDF]

Ok, bonjour mon ami E.Albright (something to do with Madeleine ? )
I tried changing my sig to put an é (this one is on my keyboard ), nothing to do, with or without html ...
The good path is the Last sentence of the message "admin may have restricted high bit characters".
I think it was not reset properly when the board crashed Last week.

Geo ?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by PDF:
Geo ?

Are you talking to me? If so I know nothing about the UBB code, and don't have access to it if I did. I am not an employee of Shrapnel, merely a fan that Richard asked to help moderate the SEIV forum. (But even that appears to have been taken away in the recent upgrade. Not that I mind. )

Probably need to ask Richard about the non-english character support.

Geoschmo

[Suicide Junkie]

It dosen't seem to be a problem for me.

Publicly Displayed Name: Suicide Junkié

You just have to replace the "é" with "& eacute" whenever you update your profile.

I have to do a similar thing with my sig in order to maintain the angle-brackets around all my links. If I don't replace them all with "& lt" or "& gt" then they are treated as bad HTML tags.

[Andrés]

Thaks Suicide Junkié
I hadn't try the html code, because I though the error message suggested it wouldn't work, and and I thought E.Albright said he had tried.

[Suicide Junkie]

That is a pretty generic error message

And when you have to use the extended Version of a character, it can really push the length limit on the names.
It seems like the profile only rejects the high-bit Version of the é, and not the HTML Version.

The login or public display name that you are trying to use is in use by an existing member. Please select another.

Alright, who stole my original P.D. name while I had it changed?!?

Arghh. I think it might be me. Some of my old Posts still show as my original name. This could be bad.
I hope I don't have to bug Richard about this

[ May 22, 2002, 04:20: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie. ]

[Fyron]

What name are you talking about SJ?

[E. Albright]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
What name are you talking about SJ?

Ahem. That would be SJ., thank you. Or at least if I'm understanding Suicide Junkie. properly...

E. Albright