Text entry
A text entry feature is available in the core series games as well as several spin-off games.
In the core series games
In the core series games, the most common places that use standard text entry are entering the player's name, the rival's name, and Pokémon's nicknames. All three of these fields use the same text entry system.
The player is often given the opportunity to enter text letter-by-letter. Prior to the Nintendo Switch, all core series games are on Nintendo systems that do not provide a native text entry system, so each game has to implement its own text entry system.
In addition to standard text entry (letter-by-letter), there are some areas within the games that players can enter text in a much more structured manner, known as the easy chat system. This system is used to make messages that can more easily translate between languages as well as restricting the ability of players to include profanity or disclose personal information.
Generation I
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Generation II
- Main article: Text entry (Generation II)
Generation III
Compared to Generation II, the ability to type digits, gender symbols, and ellipses were added to all versions. The ability to type the multiplication symbol, parentheses, colon, square brackets, and the Pokémon abbreviation were removed, while the ability to type single quotation marks was added to the Western versions. The semicolon was also removed from the English, French, Italian, and Spanish versions.
Double quotation marks were added to the English, Italian, and Spanish versions. Double guillemets were added to the French version. The space, the uppercase and lowercase letters ä, ö, and ü, and double quotation marks were added to the German version. Uppercase and lowercase Latin alphabet letters, small vowel hiragana, fullwidth period, interpunct, double and single quotation marks, and slash were added to the Japanese version.
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Generation IV
Compared to Generation III, the ability to type the colon, semicolon, parentheses, tilde/wave dash, at sign, percent sign, plus sign, equals sign, ten shapes, music note, cloud, umbrella, snowman, four faces, sleeping symbol, and two arrows were added to all versions. The multiplication sign, division sign, fullwidth comma, halfwidth period, comma, and hyphen-minus were added to the Japanese version, while the interpunct, number sign, and asterisk were added to Western and Korean versions.
Double quotation marks, the uppercase and lowercase letters à, ç, é, è, ù, and û, and the lowercase letters â, ê, ë, î, ï, and ô were added to the French version. The right double quotation mark (”) and ß were added to the German version. The letters à, é, è, ì, ò, and ù were added in uppercase and lowercase to the Italian versions. The inverted exclamation and question marks and the letters á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, and ü were added in uppercase and lowercase to the Spanish versions.
Compared to Generation II, the ability to type uppercase and lowercase Latin alphabet letters, digits, exclamation mark, and question mark were added in the Korean versions.
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Generation V
Compared to Generation IV, only the at sign has been removed from Western and Korean versions. The uppercase letters Â, Ê, Ë, Î, Ï, Ô, and Û were added to the French version, while the ability to enter the katakana ヴ vu was added to the Japanese version.
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Generation VI and Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon
Compared to Generation V, only the at sign has been removed. The uppercase and lowercase é were added to the English and German versions, while the letters ç, ï, à, è, ì, ò, and ù were added in uppercase and lowercase to the Spanish version. No changes in character availability were made between Generation VI and VII.
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Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Generation VIII, and IX
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! and all Generation VIII and IX core series games use the native Nintendo Switch text entry system. Games played in Western languages or Japanese can use characters from the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, and Symbol keyboards. Games played in Japanese can also use the Japanese keyboard, but kanji conversion is not available. Games played in Korean or Chinese have access only to the keyboard of that language and the Symbol keyboard; additional characters can be entered by manipulating the predictive text suggestions. (Note that the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese keyboards include access to a basic English keyboard.) The only character that cannot be entered from the keyboard is the at sign.
Some of the special characters that have been present since Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are modified when transferred from Pokémon Bank to Pokémon HOME.
- The face characters, arrows, and sleeping symbol are no longer supported, and are replaced with spaces (fullwidth spaces for the characters that can be entered in Japanese or Chinese, halfwidth spaces otherwise).
- The halfwidth ellipsis, gender symbols, suits, shapes, music note, sun, cloud, umbrella, and snowman are replaced with the corresponding Unicode code point that was used only for their fullwidth counterparts in previous games.
If either of these replacements are made anywhere in the string, any leading or trailing halfwidth spaces are trimmed from the resulting string. This makes it possible to have a Pokémon whose nickname or Original Trainer name is an empty string, or consists entirely of fullwidth spaces (which cannot normally be entered after Generation I).
In the spin-off games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
Rescue Team and Explorers
There were no changes between Rescue Team and Explorers except the positioning of the characters Š and Þ, and Ý and Ÿ which were swapped and þ which were positioned after ž in Rescue Team.
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Gates to Infinity
In Gates to Infinity, space is blank instead of using a bottom square bracket, Ellipsis was moved to after the lowercase letters, and the Single low-9 quotation mark, Left single quotation mark, Double low-9 quotation mark, and the Left double quotaion mark were added.
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Super Mystery Dungeon
The only change in Super Mystery Dungeon is that space went back to using a bottom square bracket instead of a blank.
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Pokémon Ranger series
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In the Pokémon Ranger series, the player can be named at the beginning of the game.
Pokémon Ranger
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Shadows of Almia and Guardian Signs
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Pokémon Trozei series
In Pokémon Trozei! the player is named at the beginning of the game and can change this name at any time from the main menu.
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Pokémon Art Academy
In Pokémon Art Academy, the player selects a name for themselves at the beginning of the game. The player can change their name as well as the name of any card in their album at any time.
The game utilizes the Nintendo 3DS's keyboard and its limitations. Cards' names can be left blank.
Pokémon Duel
In Pokémon Duel, the player selects a name for themselves at the beginning of the game.
Names can be up to eight characters long.
All text entry uses the keyboard of the device the game is played on.
Pokémon GO
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In Pokémon GO, the player selects a name for themselves at the beginning of the game, and can only change it once by going to the settings and pressing Change Nickname.
Caught Pokémon can have a nickname assigned or changed on the Pokémon's summary screen by tapping its name. Nicknames can be up to twelve characters long. Nicknames are not visible to other players.
In 2016, Pokémon GO allowed rich text entry, which supported bold tags (<b></b>) and italic tags (<i></i>) to be used; other tags supported by Unity's rich text system are too long to enclose any text. Pokémon GO no longer recognizes these tags.
All text entry uses the keyboard of the device the game is played on.
See also
- Character encoding (Generation I)
- Character encoding (Generation II)
- Character encoding (Generation III)
- Character encoding (Generation IV)
- Character encoding (Generation V-present)
- Character encoding (TCG GB)
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