Why did skyrim automatically change my name? please help

[Bumblebee Jones]

So i just bought skyrim and i'm lovin it. BUT I just realized that my players name is not what I named him:

I named my character: Lætífícµß
exactly like that with the accents where they are but when I checked my character's name his name is: 'as it was said it was a curse laid upon the ancient Companions..'

wtf I've searched the internet and I can't even find mention of that sentende, does the game think i was trying to swear? or what?

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

has anyone even heard of something like this happening?

(xbox 360 by the way)

 

[perkecet]

i find it hard to believe you could even have a name that long...

 

[perkecet]

thats a sentence from the game referring to an ability of one of the guilds

 

[NeoRoman]

Have you tried naming your character without using odd letters? Maybe the game doesn't recognize the characters and replaces it with a silly alternative name.

 

[Rayven]

Merged duplicate threads.

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

Merged duplicate threads.

ya sorry i put it both for a better chance at getting an answer

i find it hard to believe you could even have a name that long...

It's really inconvenient actually in my inventory screen the letters are so small I can't even read it. I had to wait until someone sent goons after me and i read their orders to find out what it said

thats a sentence from the game referring to an ability of one of the guilds

which guild is this? i searched the internet an literally got 0 results

Have you tried naming your character without using odd letters? Maybe the game doesn't recognize the characters and replaces it with a silly alternative name.

No I haven't, but i wonder why they would give you the option if the game couldn't read them. Also this was my characters name in oblivion as well and it worked. But I will try

 

[perkecet]

which guild is this? i searched the internet an literally got 0 result

No I haven't, but i wonder why they would give you the option if the game couldn't read them. Also this was my characters name in oblivion as well and it worked. But I will try

...the companions...

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

...the companions...

Should have guessed! lol
but I wonder why they would have picked such a random line to make my characters name? This issue is so confusing to me

 

[perkecet]

i don't see the big deal, names mean absolutely nothing in elder scrolls games.

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

i don't see the big deal, names mean absolutely nothing in elder scrolls games.

True, it's just so bizarre that the game would do something like that, and I'm curious why. I was also curious as to why I couldn't find any cases of this happening to anybody else on the entire internet.

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

Just found out that the game doesn't care about swearing in the name as I just named a new character f***f A** B***h and it let it pass through as exactly that

 

[Rayven]

Well since Skyrim isn't multiplayer, I don't see why they'd bother with any censoring code.

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

I think the problem might have been the 'µ' symbol. I just made like 3 different new characters with new names and all of the characters names come up as I made them, except now when i try to include the weird u it just pops up another text box with "prisoner" in it and it prompts me for a new name!
not sure if it does this because it can't handle the symbol or if it would be a duplicate name.

I'm not even sure if skyrim lets you have 2 characters with the same name or if it's fine

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

Any way that someone could try making a character with the weird 'u' and test this out? it could just be a bizarre glitch that only happens once in a blue moon

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

No? that's cool too.....

 

[Renji]

NeoRoman is right i tried typing that name in and it switched those weird letters around and turned it into this: LZtIffIcMS

 

[Bumblebee Jones]

thank you! I wonder why my game gave me that odd sentence