UTF-8 character ranges for modern gamertags

This topic describes modern gamertags and the UTF-8 character ranges that are supported for them by Xbox services. Modern gamertags support UTF-8 character encoding. However, the entire Unicode character set isn't supported. Instead, only specific ranges of UTF-8 characters are supported to include characters for supported language character sets.

Reserved characters: basic Latin and Latin supplemental symbols

Reserved characters are allowed in modern gamertags, which means that clients and games must render them if they appear. However, players can't create gamertags with these characters in them. Reserved characters can appear in gamertags if the system inserts them, which it can do under certain circumstances. The following table lists the supported basic Latin and Latin supplemental Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description	Characters
0021–0026	Basic Latin symbols	"!"–"&"
0028–002F	Basic Latin symbols	"("–"/"
003A–0040	Basic Latin symbols	":"–"@"
005B–0060	Basic Latin symbols	"["–"`"
007B–007E	Basic Latin symbols	"{"–"~"
00A0–00BF	Latin supplemental symbols	NBSP–"¿"

For more information about basic Latin and Latin supplemental symbols, see the Basic Latin symbols, and Latin supplemental symbols.

Latin alphanumeric and space

The following table lists the supported Latin alphanumeric Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description	Characters
0020	Space
0027	Apostrophe	'
0030–0039	Arabic numbers	"0"–"9"
0041–005A	Capital letters	"A"–"Z"
0061–007A	Lowercase letters	"a"–"z"

For a listing of Latin alphanumeric Unicode tables, see Latin alphanumeric character codes.

Latin-1 Supplemental

The following table lists the supported Latin-1 Supplemental Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description	Characters
00C0–00F6	Latin Supplemental	"À"–"ö"
00F8–00FF	Latin Supplemental	"ø"–"ÿ"

For a listing of Latin-1 Supplemental Unicode tables, see Latin-1 Supplemental character codes.

Latin Extended-A

The following table lists the supported Latin Extended-A Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description	Characters
0100–017F	Latin Extended-A	"Ā"–"ſ"

For a listing of Latin Extended-A Unicode tables, see Latin Extended-A character codes.

Korean

The following table lists the supported Korean Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
1100–1112	Hangul Jamo (consonants)
1161–1175	Hangul Jamo (vowels)
11A8–11C2	Hangul Jamo (consonants with consonant clusters)
AC00–D7A3	Hangul syllables

For a listing of Hangul Jamo Unicode tables, see Hangul Jamo character codes. For a listing of Hangul syllables Unicode tables, see Hangul Syllables.

Japanese

The following table lists the supported Japanese Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
3041–3096	Hiragana
30A1–30FA	Katakana

For a listing of Hiragana Unicode tables, see Hiragana character codes. For a listing of Katakana Unicode tables, see Katakana character codes.

Chinese

The following table lists the supported Chinese Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
4E00–9FFF	CJK Unified Ideographs

For a listing of CJK Unified Ideograph Unicode tables, see CJK Unified Ideograph character codes.

Russian

The following table lists the supported Cyrillic Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
0400–045F	Core Cyrillic alphabet

For a listing of Cyrillic Unicode tables, see Cyrillic character codes.

Bengali

The following table lists the supported Bengali Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
0985–09B9	Bengali

For a listing of Bengali Unicode tables, see Bengali character codes.

Thai

The following table lists the supported Thai Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
0E01–0E3A	Thai
0E40–0E4E	Thai

For a listing of Thai Unicode tables, see Thai character codes.

The following table lists the Thai characters and the Thai diacritics.

UTF-8 range	Description
0E01–0E30	Thai characters
0E32–0E33	Thai characters
0E40–0E46	Thai characters
0E31	Thai diacritic
0E34–0E3A	Thai diacritics
0E47–0E4E	Thai diacritics

Greek

The following table lists the supported Greek Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
0390–03CE	Greek

For a listing of Greek Unicode tables, see Greek character codes.

Hindi

The following table lists the supported Hindi Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
0900–094F	Devanagari
0966–096F	Devanagari numbers
0671–06D3	Urdu (Arabic)
06F0–06F9	Urdu numbers

For a listing of Devanagari Unicode tables, see Devanagari character codes. For a listing of Urdu (Arabic) Unicode tables, see Urdu character codes.

The following table lists the Devanagari characters and diacritics.

UTF-8 range	Description
0904–0939	Devanagari characters
0900–0903	Devanagari diacritics
093A–094F	Devanagari diacritics

Arabic

The following table lists the supported Arabic Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
0620–064A	Core Arabic alphabet
0660–0669	Arabic numbers

For a listing of Arabic Unicode tables, see Arabic character codes.

Hebrew

The following table lists the supported Hebrew Unicode symbols.

UTF-8 range	Description
05D0–05EA	Hebrew alphabet

For a listing of Hebrew Unicode tables, see Hebrew character codes.

Visual guide to Latin allowed vs. reserved characters

The following table shows which Unicode characters players can use in modern gamertags (permitted), which ones players can't use (restricted), and which ones players and the system can't use (not permitted).

Background color	Meaning
Green	Permitted. Players can use this character in a gamertag.
Yellow	Restricted. Players can't use this character in a gamertag.
White	Not permitted: Players and the system can't use this character in a gamertag.

Appendix: Windows international fonts

To see a list of the fonts available for Windows apps that are localized into languages other than U.S. English, see International fonts.