As far as the players go, the shortname is somewhat trivial, since it's the long name they see on the server list anyways and don't really see the shortname unless they look at the ini's that get generated when they logon.
Minor correction for anyone that sees this in the future. The entire string of SOE.EQ+servername+character name read in by UCS at login needs to be less than 64 characters or crash happens. For example "SOE.EQ.!The King's Lair (Solo Tuned EQEmu Server).Test" works, "SOE.EQ.!The King's Lair (Solo Tuned EQEmu Server).Tester" does not.
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