can't use emojii in creature names

[Rophs]

I evolved a grasan to lv3 and gave it the custom nickname "?"
Its name appears as "????" in the creature page.

How to replicate:
1) get a crit ready to lvup+nickname
2) put "?" in the nickname box
3) upgrade creature

creature ID is 827305

[Chewett]

No thanks we don't want this feature 

[Miq]

??? is bad also. Maybe replace it with default name when unsupported chars are used.

[Chewett]

5 hours ago, Miq said:

??? is bad also. Maybe replace it with default name when unsupported chars are used.

I could probably just remove any chars it doesn't understand if you think that's best? The four question marks probably come from the fact the emoji is using a four byte uni code char and therefore turns to four question marks

Opinions? Remove all non Latin chars?

[Rophs]

Give an error message if invalid chars are used, not allowing the creature to be upgraded.

Edited December 28, 2016 by Rophs

[Pipstickz]

http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10051-rename-creatures/

Do the default one and this. Unless it would mess with tamable creatures, or there's some deeper reason not to?

[Muratus del Mur]

all that needs to be done is change the db field to support utf8, and also save all related files in utf8, at least thats where i think the problem is. I think its a faster an easier solution than filtering out characters, plus allows certain freedom to how you name them. I don't want to encourage weird/fancy characters in crit names, i am just saying where the problem might be.

[Aethon]

Personally I feel that allowing emojis would belittle MD and also it's chat. It would definitely go against the style and look very messy and out of place.

But that's just my opinion.

[Muratus del Mur]

i agree (again, what i said was strictly from a technical perspective)

[Chewett]

5 hours ago, Muratus del Mur said:

all that needs to be done is change the db field to support utf8, and also save all related files in utf8, at least thats where i think the problem is. I think its a faster an easier solution than filtering out characters, plus allows certain freedom to how you name them. I don't want to encourage weird/fancy characters in crit names, i am just saying where the problem might be.

Yeah I understand thats the issue but thats not the solution in my opinion.

Hence why the above solution.

[Chewett]

This has been resolved.