Inoffensive, yes.
We try to fight ignorance here, and we shouldn’t judge people by their appearance, or Dopers by their name. Still, though, my first impression was that you might hang with a bunch of people with handles like “Captain Kidd,” “The Slayer” or “Lord of Darkness,” and that your posts will run along the lines of “Ðóë§ @ñýøñé |¬@/ê @ñ¥ ©òó£ //â®éz???”
Welcome to the SDMB.
The special character thing is lame. Not so much offensive as annoying. I would like it if you changed it. Thanks for asking.
Haj
My view is it was cute the first time I saw it, but after that it fairly promptly moved to mildly irritating.
Bam! You got it, it’s not a font, it’s the use of special characters. I think it’s somewhat original, in an out of the box kind of way, which is why I think most people don’t like it.
I like it. It’s different, and as long as Deep Fried doesn’t mind if I just use th’ normal alphabet for quickness when referring, I don’t mind th’ visuals at all. Quite cool, actually.
It’s original, at least as far as the board is concerned, and while at first it took me by surprise, it is fine by me. If anything, it makes me wish I chose a more original name when I first logged on; my handle is rather drab, it would seem. In short, my answer is merely an echo of the positive answers given here.
What Giraffe said.
I don’t know about this board, but others I’ve used forbid use of non-standard characters. Mostly because they don’t display correctly on certain computers. It looks like garbage on my browser too unless I change the encoding setting, and then I have to change it back when I go to Japanese web sites.
scr4, what if a page legitimately has an e with an umlaut? There are words that have that character. You can’t read that without changing your encoding setting?
What hajaro said.
what a dork
“suck”?
Do you dislike fellatio?
A. Not offensive, though if I were talking to you on the boards, I’d resent having to copy&paste all the time. It does make you look younger than most participants, but perhaps we’re just a load of old farts.
B. It appears fine, but then again my browser and OS are less than 10 bloody years old.
C. Nope. I think it’s a work of art. Just not one that appeals to me aesthetically.
Yes, it’s often the case. Most Japanese browsers assume the text uses one of the several Japanese encoding methods, and extended non-Japanese characters display incorrectly. One fix is to specify the encoding method in the HTML file header, but not all pages do that.
It’s fine. Welcome to the boards.
[reminiscing]
Ahhhh. AOL, late 90’s. Getting flamed for no reason in chat rooms by 13-year-olds with user names just like yours.
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Yeah. It annoying, but Welcome Fellow Newbie.
Looks fine to me, DeepFried.
I’ve no problem with it at all. Welcome to the boards and enjoy yourself.
Looks good from here «Ðëëp¤F®ïêd»™.
Of course, the seizure I just had looking at it may have clouded my judgement.
Eh…Keep it anyway.
What Giraffe said.
(looks around)
What??