Cannot use accented letters for a new character

Recently, I wanted to recreate a character, using the name of one of my old characters. I deleted my old character and created a new one with the same name on the same server. This name contains the letter ø. I have never had any problems with this character; in fact, my previous character had this character in its name, and many of my other characters use it too. Now, for no reason, when I try to use this character or other accented letters, the game tells me that I can only use letters.

I searched the internet, but I can’t find any other similar cases, nor any official communications announcing this change. In fact, the page on naming policies states that accented letters can be used.

Has anyone else had similar experiences? I’ll try again tomorrow, but I don’t want to risk losing the name, which I kept busy with the PG on purpose.

Hey there Revøn,

I just tried this there now and was able to use special characters as normal, including the letter “ø” you mentioned. I also don’t see any other similar reports for now.

If you’re copy-pasting the name from somewhere, make sure a blank space didn’t sneak in before or after the name, as that would invalidate it.