Is there a way to type special characters in Character or Ship Names?

crm14916

In honor of my second language, Brasilian Portuguese, I would like to add names to ships such as São Paulo or Iguaçu but I do not know how to add the tilde over the a, or the cedilla on the c. Is there a way to do this in-game to add such names to ships?

Thank you in advance for your help!
CM

warpangel

It is not possible to enter non-english alphabet into ingame text fields by any means. This is a bit odd considering the game is localized in french and german, yet you may not enter french or german special characters into player text.

duncanidaho11

If you open up your word processor of choice and look up "special characters" (under insert in MS Word) the key commands for each is listed when selected. Type those and [in some cases] you'll be able to insert a special character in STO.

As it happens though, these particular tildes aren't supported in STO (just tried it in a boff's biography using copy-paste. That works too for some fields.) Maybe this is something Cryptic could update.

spiritborn

Intrestingly IIRC the letters "Ä", "Ö" and "Å" are supported IIRC, while the first 2 are pretty common glyphs in most European languages "Å" is exclusive to swedish.

duncanidaho11

spiritborn wrote: »

Intrestingly IIRC the letters "Ä", "Ö" and "Å" are supported IIRC, while the first 2 are pretty common glyphs in most European languages "Å" is exclusive to swedish.

I copied and pasted your post into a STO bio field just to confirm and...none of those characters are supported there. What this means is that the bio field sucks when it comes to this kind of testing. I ran the letters in chat (along with those the OP was asking about) because I've seen German members of my fleet use umlauts and they worked just fine.

So what this means is that what's supported where is case-by-case. The OP may be able to use those tildes in some parts of the game (ex. chat and possibly Foundry dialog) but they won't necessarily be able to use them in naming fields. It depends on how Cryptic's set those up.

So give it at shot! If it works, great. If not, that's feedback for Cryptic.

crm14916

Just to clarify, I was able yesterday through some trepidation to get the special characters to appear in the chat window using the "ALT+" commands, but the same commands would not work in the ship name or character name slots...

Just an explanation, the word "Iguaçu" is pronounced "ee-gwah-SOO" in Portuguese, whereas if I were to type it into the ship name field without the "ç", it would appear to be pronounced "ih-GWAH-koo", which just isn't right..

Still hoping for a way to enter these types of characters into ship/name fields...

Thanks for the comments!
CM

spiritborn

crm14916 wrote: »

Just to clarify, I was able yesterday through some trepidation to get the special characters to appear in the chat window using the "ALT+" commands, but the same commands would not work in the ship name or character name slots...

Just an explanation, the word "Iguaçu" is pronounced "ee-gwah-SOO" in Portuguese, whereas if I were to type it into the ship name field without the "ç", it would appear to be pronounced "ih-GWAH-koo", which just isn't right..

Still hoping for a way to enter these types of characters into ship/name fields...

Thanks for the comments!
CM

one possibility is to angicanize the name either by changing the spelling so it matches the pronounciation better (working within the pronounciation rules of english) or by simply accepting that using "c" isn't correct in portuguese but it's the closest you got to the correct letter in english.

same way "Jupiter" is spelled Jupiter and not IVPITER dispite latin not having lower case letters or the letters "j" or "u", or how USS Shenzhou uses translateration rather then chinese characters for the name.