Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna I'm against this people have a right to their name. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580058/#p580058 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna There's this polish TTS which crashes when encountering cyryllic or Chinese characters. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/575101/#p575101 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Reading those characters with elliquence is like reading juarasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuasjuas URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/575095/#p575095 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna When my NVDA reads those characters it would for example say "chinese letter chinese letter" or "japanese letter japanese letter japanese letter". Interesting that some people's synthesisers don't read anything at

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Yeah but synths will say the ö so it's good. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574776/#p574776 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna my name is spelled as ömer, though for some unknown reason I've written with o while creating this account URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574682/#p574682 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna I personally have no problem calling anyone anything they wish to be called, so long as I can actually call them that. My issue with the literally one or two chinese users is that their names just don't sound at

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna I personally have no problem calling anyone anything they wish to be called, so long as I can actually call them that. My issue with the literally one or two chinese users is that their names just don't read at all.

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Turkish names can be read by synthesizers.There's about 3 or 4 users on here that use their name, at least, I think they do, and their names are read by eSpeak.Besides, the turkish alphabet is very similar to

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna That's part of the problem though. They -are named, just not in a way that appeals to our English-speaking sensibilities.If they speak on the forum, they usually either run their text through a translator or have

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Well names like that might not even translate well into English. I don't want to take anyone's name away, though I do feel a bit weird that certain people due to their character set have a kind of anonymity that

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Okay. I've thought about it, and here's my own take on this.1. Offensive usernames are edge casesIf a username, in any language, is offensive, we can straight-up change it, or request that it be changed. If a

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna @25 i don’t think that the forum accept arabic, i mean i could try but it’s rule breaking. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574281/#p574281 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Hi.At dark well you could copy the name, incert it into your dictionary and type in a placeholder description till you know the persons real name or the one they would want to identify with.I know alot of chinese

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Hmm, i wonder what will happen if there arabick characters in my post? Will the forum show them, تست URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574239/#p574239 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna If we're thinking about the same person then his name is Tuohai. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574233/#p574233 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna @nidza07, for my case, I wouldn't mind if the characters actually spoke as "chinese character 2" or something like, but they don't speak at all, which means when a name just uses those characters, it literally

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna @nidza07, for my case, I wouldn't mind if the characters actually spoke as "chinese character 2" or something like, but they don't speak at all, which means when a name just uses those characters, it literally

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna @nidza07, for my case, I wouldn't mind if the characters actually spoke as "chinese character 2" or something like, but they don't speak at all, which means when a name just uses those characters, it literally

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna I'd never for get the first time I saw someone with Chinese characters. heheheh. I remember asking why doesn't that person have a name? Because to me it read like #23 by? Also, one question. f we're going to use

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna First, this isn't a mainstream forum. It is targeting a specific audience and makes reasonable accommodations to allow ease of use by it's patronage. Second, while dictionary entries should work, it would quickly

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Lol, enforcing English in names...Finally, Jack mentions dictionaries which is something I was going to bring up myself and is a perfectly valid way of getting  a name to pronounce the way you want.Good luck

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Yeah, I agree with Cross here. I lean more towards Dark's compremize, however, is there not a rule that talks about English posts only? I believe that should, at least partially, extend to names as well.Also, there

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Both phonetic pronunciations nad alternative names sounds like good compromises.Also I don't think order should be strictly enforced, because most of us here have screen-readers with pronunciation dictionaries. We

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna @Dark that's a good compromise.This isn't about race; many things aren't about race but people have the annoying habit of trying to make them about it so they have a platform to shout from. It's about character sets

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna I am against this for now. It seems ... unintentionally racist? That others would have to adapt to us westerners, because we're not willing to adapt to them.It's not like there's a lot of such people, so you can

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_(surname) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574023/#p574023 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Hm, might be! You've piqued my interest nevertheless. I wonder whether yo uhave the character somewhere. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/574022/#p574022 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna @Nuno, his name was definitely "hong", maybe he or I got the translation wrong, or maybe it was a different chinese dialect I don't know, as I said, he preferred people just call him Phoenix, he also was a big Hp

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Then it had to be Huang. Huang means yellow in Chinese. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/573997/#p573997 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna funny, I thought I'd already replied to this thread, but a forum error seems to have eaten it .What I said was I see two sides to this. on the one hand yes, names which contain none standard latin characters screen

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna I agree with Ironcross especially the point where he siighted the fact that for espeak they're effectively called chinese letter, chinese letter. @Nuno, and others, if you're against it, why don't you have a problem

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna @Ironcrosss, my TTS does not read the characters you've posted, so limiting one character set and allowing another is stupid and discriminatory. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/573957/#p573957 --

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Hi.At Nocturniss well to be honest everyone could create a username that is either vulgar or discriminating someone or something.Do you mods run every name through some translater to find out if that name is

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna I agree with everything leading up to fore renaming them as user9-25-2020-10-19, as that just doens't bode well for brevity. THat could, however, work as a good temporary olution while we look up the characters,

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Kanji is a set of standard characters. Its defined in the Unicode standard. But I do see the point here and agree with it; we can run non-Latin characters through a machine translation system like Google Translate

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna maybe disallowing usernames that only contains none latin letters?so if the part of the user name has latin letters, we can distinguish it from the others URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/573899/#p573899

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna maybe disallowing usernames that only contains none latin letters?so if the part of the user name have latin letters, we can distinguish it from the others URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/573899/#p573899

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna ğüğüğü URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/573899/#p573899 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna It is harsh in a way, and feels somewhat discriminatory to just tell people they can't use their character sets. We are telling them that for the most part, they can't use their language though. The two are strongly

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Yeah, with Iron here.  It's honestly not fair in the sense that someone could theoretically make a name in another language with a bunch of chars we can't read that is vulgar or otherwise offensive and we wouldn't

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna I could see supporting / allowing á é í ó úñ ä ö ü ë ï ç and like that, but for the reason that those actually read out. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/573867/#p573867 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Yes, this is an english speaking forum, but at the same time it's an international forum where people of many cuntrys meat.I would find it not ok if you disallow non latin characters in usernames. If someone wants

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Hi,We have a chinese developer here who uses them. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/573793/#p573793 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna Wow, sounds harsh, but I agree with it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/573787/#p573787 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna

Kanji and other nonstandard characters should not be allowed in userna It doesn't happen a lot here, but since this is an English speaking forum, we should disallow all non-standard characters in usernames. Not all synths read them, and those that do often times just say something like