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{{Bulbapedia2|List of glitches in Generation IV#Pal Park name encoding glitch}}
{{Bulbapedia2|List of glitches in Generation IV#Pal Park name encoding glitch}}
[[File:Pal Park nickname glitch Mr. Mime.png|frame|right|Conversion of Mimi the Mr. Mime's original trainer name from "RÚTEO" to "RつTEO".]]
[[File:Pal Park nickname glitch Mr. Mime.png|frame|right|Conversion of Mimi the Mr. Mime's original trainer name from "RÚTEO" to "RつTEO".]]
The '''Pal Park name encoding glitch''' is a glitch that exists in foreign versions of [[bp:fourth generation|fourth generation]] Pokémon games causing the OT names or nicknames of Pokémon from [[bp:Generation III|Generation III]] games to become corrupted when they are transferred to [[bp:Pal Park|Pal Park]], if they contain certain characters not primarily used in the English language.
The '''Pal Park name encoding glitch''' is a glitch that exists in [[bp:fourth generation|Generation IV]] Pokémon games causing specific OT names or nicknames of Pokémon originating from foreign versions of [[bp:Generation III|Generation III]] games to become corrupted when they are transferred to [[bp:Pal Park|Pal Park]].


This glitch only occurs if the nicknames or OTs have certain characters not primarily used in the English language, such as Á (which would transform into い (hiragana "i")).
For example, Á will become い (hiragana "i").


==Obtaining a relevant character in a name==
==Obtaining a relevant character in a name==
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In Generation III characters with grave, acute and circumflex accents, as well as those with a diaeresis or tilde cannot be chosen when naming the player or nicknaming a Pokémon even within game localizations where they are commonly used. Instead, the player can only choose the characters that they would have been able to in the previous generations, with the addition of numbers 1-9 and a few symbols.

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Unusually, characters with grave, acute and circumflex accents, as well as those with a diaeresis or tilde cannot be chosen when naming the player or nicknaming a Pokémon even within game localizations where they are commonly used. Instead, the player can only choose the characters that they would have been able to in the previous generations, with the addition of numbers 1-9 and a few symbols.


Despite this, in non-English European versions of the [[bp:Generation III|Generation III]] main-series Pokémon games, there are a few default trainer names that have non-English characters, and there are some in-game trainers that trade with the player who have either OT names or nicknames with foreign characters. The programmers apparently forgot about this possibility when programming Pal Park.
Despite this, in non-English European versions of the [[bp:Generation III|Generation III]] main-series Pokémon games, there are a few default trainer names that have non-English characters, and there are some in-game trainers that trade with the player who have either OT names or nicknames with foreign characters. The programmers apparently forgot about this possibility when programming Pal Park.
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