Pal Park name encoding glitch: Difference between revisions

In [[bp:Generation I|Generation I]] and [[bp:Generation II|Generation II]], when the player gives the trainer a name, or gives a Pokémon a nickname, the character set is restricted to English letters or Japanese letters, depending on the localization of the game, as well a few symbols not including numbers; that is, no characters primarily used in other languages (such as Spanish) can be selected, regardless of the language of the game. The only characters which exist within the same character set are those which are used in the localized game and the leftover hiragana and katakana from the original Japanese version, however due to [[incompatibility between Pokémon games of different languages]], glitches will persist (the extent to which depending on the localizations) most notably between English and Japanese versions if two players using different game localizations attempt to trade or battle with Pokémon. In these generations, although leftover hiragana and katakana remain within the game code, characters such as the uppercase 'Á' and 'É' do not exist within the English character set but only within the relevant game localizations (with the exception of the lowercase 'é') where these characters are primarily used within the game. If the equivalent character is recalled in another localization where it does not exist, the game will recall it as a 'symbol' incremental to that of the current tileset.

 

 

==Accented Pokémon names in [[bp:Generation III|Generation III]]==