Forums General Discussion What characters can be used in a nick name?

Like if I wanted to have the nick I ..
but the server only allows 3 chars or more.

Wht could I use?

Like e.g. 'I' ..

The characters allowed vary depending on the network. Just try things until you find something that works.

Keep in mind that people who want to talk to you will not appreciate typing weird characters to say your name.

most networks accept these:

a-z
A-Z
0-9
{}[]`\^_-|

and not much else. but as riamus already stated, this does depend on the network.

On most nets, following regex (i know its not perfect) does a good job filtering invalid inputs.
It checks full usermasks (like $fulladdress) including wildcards (remove the three * if you dont want wildcards), and returns true if the mask contains only valid chars:

$regex(%fulladdresshere,^[-\]\\_*^[{}|`\w]+![\w.*~-]+@[\w.*-]+$)

I'll add that some networks allow unicode to be used in nicks as well.

Thanks!

I don't know if this applies to all or some networks, but all the ones I've tested on don't allow nicknames to begin with numbers. ie. a nickname of 123 or 9ab would be considered invalid.

-genius_at_work

You cannot start a name with a hyphen either.