Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To 🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jun 20, 2005 11:51 PM UTC:They aren't garbage characters. He is giving his name in Chinese (or maybe Japanese). You may need to install a Chinese font to see them appropriately. Still, the name field should be used only for names spelled with alphabets that are rooted in the same Latin alphabet used for English. It shouldn't be used for URLs or for names spelled with non-Latin character sets, such as Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. The reason for this is that this site is in English and is run and frequented mainly by people who speak English as a first or second language. And most of those whose first language is something else, such as Dutch, French, or Spanish, still use the Latin alphabet for their primary language. So, to give the majority of people here an idea of how to pronounce your name, it should be given in Latin characters, transliterated if need be. For example, this person might put the Pinyin transliteration of his name in his name field, then use the 'Notes' field of his user information to give his name in Chinese, and 'Web site' field to give the URL to his website. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID member names does not match any item.