Forum:The sign up is not letting me use other international characters.

I've tested to see if the greek characters can be used on the account but is not letting me use the key. The letter was omicorn like this "ο". Could someone help me to get the staff to get rid of the restrictions of characters that are in a different language so that users can be able to use them.--Sonic &#38; Gobo Fraggle 3 (talk) 22:53, October 8, 2012 (UTC)

The easiest way, for me, is to copy-paste. Works with any language, and preserves characters. Fling That Butter! 22:57, October 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * I tried to do that but i got this message: The name "$1" is not allowed to prevent confusing or spoofed usernames: $2. Please choose another name. And the antispoof-name-illegal interface message is fake and needs to get out of the site. What should i do to get the staff to get that mediawiki message out of here?--Sonic &#38; Gobo Fraggle 3 (talk) 23:23, October 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * If you got $1 and $2 instead of an appropriate message then you should report that as a bug, the message substitution is obviously broken on that feature. As for having that disabled... I doubt that is going to happen, there are too many trolls who exploit the fact that languages with characters that are only slightly different from English characters, and are practically indistinguishable to English readers, allows them to impersonate other people. Spammers also use those characters to increase the number of accounts they can create with similar looking names.


 * You can always just create an account with a name similar to the one you want (use a latin 'o' instead of omicron for example) that does get through the filter then give yourself a custom signature that uses the exact characters (like omicron) that you want. [Although, this only helps on forums and talk pages, message walls and article comments don't use custom signatures, they probably should add a custom sig feature that lets you display a specified signature with your account name next to it like it does for anons on MWs] Lunarity 04:42, October 9, 2012 (UTC)