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Ok, it seems like they only recognize subtractive notation. Nonetheless, numbers from L onward seem to work, so if you want that distinct "roman numeral" look, you could choose "King LXVII".


For some reason i would be suprised if they check for unicode roman numerals, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerals_in_Unicode#Roman_nume...


They don't check for them, they just forcibly convert them into ASCII by taking the lowest byte of the Unicode code point, turning "ⅠⅡⅢⅣⅤⅥⅦⅧⅨⅩⅪⅫⅬⅭⅮⅯⅰⅱⅲⅳⅴⅵⅶⅷⅸⅹⅺⅻⅼⅽⅾⅿ" into "`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~\x7f". A few of these characters get rejected, though curiously not the last one, which is nonprintable.




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