It probably has something to do with whatever language/code/etc that they're using for transfers. My main has an apostrophe. I went away for almost a year, came back and noticed that they'd done some sort of renaming thing so I had to correct the name, but if I looked at the character data it still shows a screwed up name.
It's something like this:
In many languages this character // is treated as a commenting bracket. So if I wanted to display a single /, then I had to do something like this ///. It's been a while so that may not be exactly right, but it's close enough to prove the point. Basically if they let the character stay in the name during the xfer, then something BAD would likely happen like say the character file gets corrupted and you lose it all together.
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In this particular case, the language is SQL, and the single quote (aka. apostrophe) is used to mark off sequences of text (such as the character name). There are standard ways to deal with apostrophes occuring within a text sequence, and the fact that this is a problem says unpleasant things about the skill of whoever wrote the character transfer tool.
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Originally Posted by WanderingAries
It's something like this:
In many languages this character // is treated as a commenting bracket. So if I wanted to display a single /, then I had to do something like this ///. It's been a while so that may not be exactly right, but it's close enough to prove the point. Basically if they let the character stay in the name during the xfer, then something BAD would likely happen like say the character file gets corrupted and you lose it all together. |
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Originally Posted by Loc_Motive
Is this a bug or an official policy?
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And it's listed in Known Issues, which means that they're 'working on it.'
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Originally Posted by Katie V
In this particular case, the language is SQL, and the single quote (aka. apostrophe) is used to mark off sequences of text (such as the character name). There are standard ways to deal with apostrophes occuring within a text sequence, and the fact that this is a problem says unpleasant things about the skill of whoever wrote the character transfer tool.
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It definitely says something about hiring standards and coding experience. That said, the tool's been down for what a month now?
From 9-22-11 patch notes,
"Character Transfer
Characters with an apostrophe in their name will not be able to transfer to another shard."
Why?
Why the restriction on names containing an apostrophe?
Is this a bug or an official policy?
So if I want to transfer a toon with an apostrophe in the name I have to pay for a rename token first?
If it's a bug please get it fixed ASAP because I'm intending to transfer a couple of toons with names that do contain apostrophes.
If it's an official policy I think it's total Bull Crap and another way to milk money from the player base.