So, I have special characters in my name, and they dont show up in TF2, they show up as boxes. How do I go about fixing this?
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So, I have special characters in my name, and they dont show up in TF2, they show up as boxes. How do I go about fixing this?
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Language pack for what? tf2?
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Language pack for what? tf2?
Language pack for what? tf2?
Installing the right language pack (depends what characters you're using) for Windows will probably make the characters show up -- but just for you. Everybody else who hasn't gone to the trouble will still see boxes.
Basically, all the characters in your name are just numbers to a computer. The computer might have a font/language pack installed that tells it, hey, this number means this shape to draw on the screen. Or it might not, and just give up and draw a box instead. The normal characters you can type without alt codes on a US keyboard are in the ASCII character set, numbers 0-127, and pretty much everybody's computer can draw them without issue. So stick with those and you're ok.
Installing the right language pack (depends what characters you're using) for Windows will probably make the characters show up -- but just for you. Everybody else who hasn't gone to the trouble will still see boxes.
Basically, all the characters in your name are just numbers to a computer. The computer might have a font/language pack installed that tells it, hey, this number means this shape to draw on the screen. Or it might not, and just give up and draw a box instead. The normal characters you can type without alt codes on a US keyboard are in the ASCII character set, numbers 0-127, and pretty much everybody's computer can draw them without issue. So stick with those and you're ok.
Basically, all the characters in your name are just numbers to a computer. The computer might have a font/language pack installed that tells it, hey, this number means this shape to draw on the screen. Or it might not, and just give up and draw a box instead. The normal characters you can type without alt codes on a US keyboard are in the ASCII character set, numbers 0-127, and pretty much everybody's computer can draw them without issue. So stick with those and you're ok.
Man it sucks that you own the trademark for the word beanie and cant even show it off in game
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Man it sucks that you own the trademark for the word beanie and cant even show it off in game
Man it sucks that you own the trademark for the word beanie and cant even show it off in game
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Man it sucks that you own the trademark for the word beanie and cant even show it off in game
It's supposed to be the tag to his HL team, referencing the TM's from pokemon.
i'm not saying that makes it any less silly, just that the trademark thing would be pretty dumb
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Man it sucks that you own the trademark for the word beanie and cant even show it off in game[/quote]
It's supposed to be the tag to his HL team, referencing the TM's from pokemon.
i'm not saying that makes it any less silly, just that the trademark thing would be pretty dumb
Man it sucks that you own the trademark for the word beanie and cant even show it off in game[/quote]
It's supposed to be the tag to his HL team, referencing the TM's from pokemon.
i'm not saying that makes it any less silly, just that the trademark thing would be pretty dumb
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