"<" symbol in title of a hosted game?

[eXcalibur]

When I want to host a game in FAF I press "Forged Alliance Forever" in the "Create Custom Game" section. After that a window pops up where I can enter the title of my hosted game. under that is the Lobby Preview.

I can enter everything I can think of as a title and in the Lobby Preview it will show me the correct title (and when I start the game it really has the same title the Lobby Preview shows) EXCEPT the "<" symbol !!!
It gets even more weird: Everything I have entered as a title after the "<" symbol gets will NOT be shown in the title...

examples:
(I used the "_" to make a table. please ignore it)

I enter:_______________________________title shown in lobby (preview):
<500 noobs____________________________
noobs | <500__________________________noobs |
>500 noobs <1000______________________>500 noobs
>|_-#'+*~ß$"²³^+*_______________________>|_-#'+*~ß$"²³^+*

Other players can use this symbol in the title, though. When I asked them they told me that they did not have any difficulties using it.
I use a German keyboard layout - can this be the problem?

[Prince__]

Just tried it .. you are not alone.I have the same issue
It's the german keyboard for sure.


But I guess you use the < key instead of naming them over 1000 rating or under 1000 rating or something else.It's not hard to make it this way.

(Ok but still this key isn't shown at all)

[eXcalibur]

Since the number of letters in the title of a hosted game are very limited, I would like be able to use the "<" symbol instead of having to write "under" or "smaller".

[Adraius]

I have the standard QWERTY keyboard, and I'm not able to use < ot > either. I was just about to ask about this.


Edited for spelling.

[eXcalibur]

@Adraius: ok this is strange. you are neither able to use "<" nor ">"?

i ONLY have problems with "<". all other symbols work for me!

the german keyboard layout is QWERTZ.

[eXcalibur]

I thought I had found a workaround by typing Html4 code "&lt;" instead of "<".

I could see the result immediately in the Lobby Preview Title. The "<" symbol was correctly displayed there.

Unfortunately when I started my server, the game title was displayed in the Custom Game Tab in FAF the way I entered it ( &lt;900 noobs only) and NOT how the Lobby Preview displayed it ( <900 noobs only).

Another strange thing: In the Live Replays Tab I cannot see the ">" symbol anymore. Only the Html4 code "&gt;". This used to work correctly.

That's all I have found out until now about this problem.