Does ROTMG accept non-Latin script in chat?

[Wizofrotmg]

Latin script

Basically, Roman/Latin Script looks like this:

I could not type Japanese characters, Chinese characters, and Russian characters(Cyrillic alphabet); In other words, I could not type non-Latin script in ROTMG.

Those with the weird markings don’t register in chat.

Have any of you had success with such non-Latin alphabet characters?

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Note: I think Turkish, Polish, and Vietnamese have Latin script, but with weird dots and style above/below the letters.

TIL: Also, those weird markings above/below/in/out of the letters are called diacritical marks

Diacritic

[Textbook]

I think I remember that on either testing or one of the times they were trying the chat server split on prod, it became possible to type non-Latin characters. I don’t know if I’m remembering wrong though, it has been a while.

[Twitchystr]

I can’t type chinese :v

[Mynamerr]

It also depends on what kind of chat you’re using, for example µ is forbidden in public chat but works in pms (and also gchat I think).

[Skandling]

You can write non-Latin text in chat but it gets rejected as soon as you try and send it. I posted an example of this here:

Longer names

One thing that might not be obvious is it’s often incredibly easy to add support for non-English text. In most development environments today it’s the default, as it has been for a decade or so. Even in ROTMG you can type in Chinese if you want, into chat. Flash supports it no problem. You see whatever you wrote rendered in small but readable Chinese： [29] Then ROTMG’s back end checks it and rejects it, as it does pretty much everything that’s not ASCII, and no-one else gets to see it. So to …

and there is some discussion in that thread. As I noted then it’s something they should fix for Unity, there is no excuse for it in a game played in so many countries.

[Textbook]

I think that at least, people should be able to type non-Latin characters into the chat. I think it would be reasonable to restrict account names to only using A-Z letters (as it already is, though I’ve seen a few strange exceptions recently) for moderation/support purposes.

Of course, this introduces some more spam potential because omg non-standard font can do so many things with it, but really it only exacerbates an existing problem (misuse/abuse of the chat) that Deca needs to deal with in a better way.

[system]

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