How to allow custom letters for character names.

[al5yal511]

Hello, today I'll explain how to allow other languages characters to be used in avatar names & ships & guilds.

like turkish & arabic etc.

first go to game\data\System\Languages\EuropeanEnglish.xdb
edit this file if your shard.xml is using <territory>Europe_eng</territory>, otherwise check which file has same name.

if you want to support arabic letters then you have to open game\data\System\Languages\MENA.xdb, copy the <matchUser>[\u0621-\u063A\u0641-\u064A\u0030-\u0039\u0041-\u005A\u0061-\u007A\\s]+</matchUser>

add them to game\data\System\Languages\EuropeanEnglish.xdb

it should look like this <matchUser>(^[A-Za-z]+$)|(^[А-Яа-я]+$)|(^[\u0621-\u063A\u0641-\u064A\u0030-\u0039\u0041-\u005A\u0061-\u007A\]+$)|</matchUser>

notice how I replaced s+ to +$, because there's an argument in other lines "<matchUser>\S+</matchUser>" not sure now what this refers to, so I changed the original s+ to $+ so that both english and arabic work together.

the file is now looking like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<basement.server.lang.NameRules>
    <Header>
        <resourceId>136387585</resourceId>
    </Header>
    <name>eng_eu</name>
    <lang>en</lang>
    <country>GB</country>
    <avatarNameRules>
        <matchUser>(^[A-Za-z]+$)|(^[А-Яа-я]+$)|(^[\u0621-\u063A\u0641-\u064A\u0030-\u0039\u0041-\u005A\u0061-\u007A\]+$)|</matchUser>
        <matchMaster>.+</matchMaster>
        <minLength>3</minLength>
        <maxLength>16</maxLength>
        <transformation>FirstUppercased</transformation>
    </avatarNameRules>
    <shipNameRules>
        <matchUser>(^[A-Za-z]+(\-\d+)?$)|(^[А-Яа-я]+(\-\d+)?$)|(^[\u0621-\u063A\u0641-\u064A\u0030-\u0039\u0041-\u005A\u0061-\u007A\]?$)|</matchUser>
        <matchMaster>.+</matchMaster>
        <minLength>3</minLength>
        <maxLength>16</maxLength>
        <transformation>FirstUppercased</transformation>
    </shipNameRules>
    <guildNameRules>
        <matchUser>(^[A-Za-z]+( |\-|\')?[A-Za-z]+$)|(^[А-Яа-я]+( |\-|\')?[А-Яа-я]+$)|(^[\u0621-\u063A\u0641-\u064A\u0030-\u0039\u0041-\u005A\u0061-\u007A\]+$)|</matchUser>
        <matchMaster>.+</matchMaster>
        <minLength>3</minLength>
        <maxLength>30</maxLength>
        <transformation>FirstUppercased</transformation>
    </guildNameRules>
    <deniedWords href="deniedWords_Europe.txt" />
</basement.server.lang.NameRules>

note that each territory letters is seperated by "|" and letters argument starts with "(^" and ends with "+$)|"
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