Microsoft KB Archive/274627

= Combat Flight Simulator 2 Error Message: The Pilot Name Contains Illegal Characters or Is Invalid =

Article ID: 274627

Article Last Modified on 1/21/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater

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This article was previously published under Q274627



SUMMARY
When you paste a pilot name into the Pilot Name box in Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2, you may receive the following error message:

The pilot name contains illegal characters or is invalid. Please select another name.

In addition, the game may stop responding (hang) or quit unexpectedly, or you may receive an application error in module AI_PLAYER.DLL.



MORE INFORMATION
When you type a pilot name into the Pilot Name box in Combat Flight Simulator 2, illegal characters do not appear in the box.

If you paste illegal characters into the Pilot Name box, you may experience any of the symptoms mentioned in the &quot;Symptoms&quot; section of this article.

Examples of illegal characters include:
 * Asterisk
 * Backslash
 * Slash

Additional query words: 1.00 msgame combatfs cfs2 notepad ascii special

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB274627

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