hyphenated names

Personette

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

I just started a new character, then once I started running around with her I realized her name would sound better with a hyphen instead of a space between two of the words.

I'm tempted to delete my character and start another with the same name, and a hypen, but I don't want to go to the effort only to find out that someone else already has the name with a hyphen.

I'm just wondering if anyone knows if a hyphen is going to function like a space, so that my name without hyphen would preclude someone else making the same name with a hyphen, or if it's like a letter, so that the addition of the hyphen would make it a totally different name....Sorry, this sounds confusing, but I'm sure someone out there gets the idea.

Stormlord Alex

Stormlord Alex

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Beyond the Forest of Doom, past the Cavern of Agony... on Kitten & Puppy Island

Soul of Melandru [sOm]

W/E

You can't add hyphens in names in GW. Or any other punctuation.

yishin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

Isle of Meditation

N/

I agree with Stormlord Alex, I also tried to make one with a hyphen didn't work.

DarthChar

DarthChar

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2007

The Pink Reapers

D/Mo

You can only have English letters in your name.

Matfei

Matfei

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Australia

None. Being a loner X-Fire: matfei1

W/Mo

English Letters, no numerics, symbols, or anything else.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

I can also confirm all of this, no hypens allowed. Tis a shame, I would have really liked to make TK-7764 as a character (a long standing character I've used in a few other mediums).

Iuris

Iuris

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Crazy ducks from the Forest

W/

And a good thing that is, too.

Really, what kind of person would make a sword and sorcery character with a name that sounds like a bar code...

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

A person who likes to reference Star Wars... (TK-421 why aren't you at your post?).