Character Limit: Unfortunate?

No. I'm not talking about the limit to how many characters we can create. I'm talking about the characters we're allowed to type in the chat box and use as character names...

I find it odd that if I live in Japan, my character can be called エアリス カーター OR Aeris Carter. Yet, if I live in America, my character can only be called Aeris Carter? Hmmm...

I can kinda understand the whole "you can't use certain characters in your home-district" thingy... Characters like ª, α, ß, ¢, δ, £, Σ, ε, ƒ, π, √, Ω, ∩, Φ, Θ, ¶, þ, φ, σ, §, †, ×, ¥, Æ, æ, ♪, ♀, ♂, √, ≡, ∞, ■, ▲, ▼, ☆, ★, and so many more... Because people could spam them to get other's attention.

But you can spam these in international districts? I don't see how that makes sense, tbh. But that's not what I'm "complaining" about. My complaint is: why are we limited to just English names?

If someone can give me a valid reason why American characters can only use English text while Oriental characters can use other types of text, then I'll withdraw my complaint. Thanks in advanced.

Because (tongue in cheek) Americans only think about english and the rest of the world knows that America (and english) aren't the center of the universe?

shesh America is the center of the universe... and im the center of America duh didn't you know that. lol.

but as far as op goes, yea i agree, i want diff chars in name so i can do some good names. like using the actual characters for tenshi instead of writing it out lol.

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Yep, I like it.

I agree. Especially when Factions came out it seemed entirely inappropriate that they couldn't have Asian names...

No. If you want to use other symbols when you create your characters name, change your home district when you create your character. Afterwards, change back to American if you want to play there (thus, if somebody is REALLY motivated to do this, they can, but it keeps all the idiots who just want to scribble garbage names from doing it).

Wouldn't it be pretty hard to invite members to your guild and send pm's if you had to type asian characters on an american/european keyboard?

I never really cared much for the "must have at least 2 words" thing, myself. Allow it, sure, but force it?
That's a dead horse, though.

I think the main idea is that most Americans can't easily type such symbols. I don't generally have IME turned on. This makes it extremely hard to add you to a party in large/populated towns. As well as send you a whisper.

Because Asian countries have to pay monthly subscription fees, so Anet figures to give them a little more freedom in creating characters names and giving them special minipets/events?

Ctrl+Shift+Enter
A nifty thing I found out a couple days ago after you select someone.
The party search thing makes sense.
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