Why can't I put a space in my username, but I see other accounts with spaces in there name?

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avatar for Isosceles Isosceles 1 post
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Hello, just wondering why I see people with spaces in their usernames, yet i have multiple accounts trying to put a space in my name? I type something like, “afdshgdfg” as a username, obviously not taken, then add a space, and " afdsh gdfg" is taken…tried it multiple times, still won’t work.

 
avatar for plujan plujan 323 posts
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There are no usernames on Kongregate with spaces in them. I think the name checker returns “Username taken” for anything with a space in it, because it’s not a valid username — it probably would be more accurate if it said something like “Invalid username”, but it doesn’t matter all that much.

 
avatar for Zshadow Zshadow 10651 posts
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We do allow underscores in names, if that’s what you’re seeing.

Example: afdsh_gdfg

 
avatar for IceWeaselX IceWeaselX 1224 posts
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The accounts you think have spaces in them actually only have underscores (_), which don't really display well when the entire name is underlined.

example_name looks like example_name when underlined.

Edit: Z posted while I was fighting with the format parser =p