Well I feel a bit silly. just created my Libra character, and thought I'd gotten stuck in the name screen and that there was an on-screen keyboard to use. Turns out that wasn't the case, so press enter when you get there, type your name, and if OCRing, you'll see the name at the bottom of the screen. press enter, then the start button and you'll be good to go.
Another msall tidbit I found out, the museum has stuff from all previous games two, though I'm not sure how much of it we'll be able to use. a fair chunk I'd imagine, as there are lots of movies, texts and the like. Still in awe of this game.