Naming characters

[medea]

Does anyone know how to create a name with accents above the letters? Or if it's even possible?

For example: Goldie Noor al-Népirtás. How would I create a name like this when creating a character in NWN1?

Thanks in advance!

[BrunoKnotslinger]

Does anyone know how to create a name with accents above the letters? Or if it's even possible?

For example: Goldie Noor al-Népirtás. How would I create a name like this when creating a character in NWN1?

Thanks in advance!

Two ways:

You can create your text somewhere else, then copy it (Ctrl-C), then paste it (Shift-Insert) into the name fields.

The other way is to use the Alt-codes for creating the special characters. Wherever you want a special character, you hold down the Alt key, type in a four digit number, then release the Alt key. For example, Alt-0233 is é and Alt-0225 is á.

http://www.usefulshortcuts.com/alt-code ... -codes.asp

[terror2001]

Another method that Bruno eluded to with the "create your text somewhere else" that is fairly easy to do is using Character Map program and/or Notepad.

Load up Notepad:
Start->Programs->Accessories->Notepad
or
Start->Run->type in notepad

Load up Character Map
Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map
or
Start->Run->type in charmap

In Character map select the font Fixedsys. You'll be able to scroll up and down the various characters that are available in this font. Other fonts are generally not going to work with NWN, though there may be some, but I would suggest to stick with Fixedsys.

For any special characters just double-click on the special character in Character Map, or click once on a character then press Select button, then Copy button. Both methods copy the character to the clipboard. Then in Notepad select Edit->Paste and your special character shows up. You can also use the Character Map program to build the complete name and copy it to the clipboard once.

Once in NWN and you're at the screen to put in a name you can press Shift-Insert, or if that does not work you can try CTRL-V, to paste in the contents of the clipboard. I would suggest to copy the complete name to the clipboard before creating your new PC as it's easier to paste in the complete name than trying to do it one character at a time.

[Alphonse]

On a side note i vaguely recall some issues with names with special characters for portalling between servers, but this may have been fixed.

Terry?

[terryrayc]

it should be fixed. We now encode special characters.

[makelovelikewar]

Noor was successfully created with the accented letters and was played in Arkaz without a hitch. Hala/Ysgard does not accept the accented letters and Noor could not portal. Noor had to have a name change, removing the accented letters to allow for portaling.

If I understood some of the issues involved, a part of the character's name is their bic (correct me if I'm wrong here). At least one of the accented characters was in this bic and therefore ruined Noor's ability to portal. I suppose that a person could have accented letters near the end of their name only (after where the bic cuts off) and still successfully portal. I'm not going to test that theory though.