- should be allowed in name creation

i am part french so my last name is hyphenated ______-______. if i wanted to use my real name in the game i cant because - not allowed in name creations only '. se should fix that

Tbh, I can see this being an oversight that is difficult/low priority to change. The main reason that characters like ' (like in Khuja'to) are present in character name creation is because they exist within eorzea naming conventions, it may be possible that we could get this in the future with a playable race who's naming convention involves "-" characters (as with french naming conventions), though it is unlikely we will see this otherwise.

The Padjal's naming convetion and as well as Gelmorran have a "-" in them.

Example:
E-Sumi Yan
Kan E-Senna
O-App Pesi

Mun-Tuy and Toto-Rak

But yeah, this is just another limitation in the CC probably

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Originally Posted by myahele

The Padjal's naming convetion and as well as Gelmorran have a "-" in them.

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Those aren't playable races, so their naming conventions aren't in the random name generator. It's likely that NPC names use the same character encoding as the rest of the dialogue (because the lore team names responsibly), whereas player names use a far more limited one in order to prevent players from using numbers and special characters like &$@!+ in their names (immersion?). As I said, "-" was likely an oversight.

Considering we have player names like |``````````| in the game the whole - not being available is very likely an oversight.