Comment by moviuro
10 years ago
I'm pretty sure the standard US layout offers more than enough symbols to write an excellent password.
I tend to prefer extremely long passwords/phrases over things that require stupid characters (had trouble with WiFi keys using the French "é" back in 2008, all my passwords are ASCII since)
Of course, characters that I use in my everyday language aren't "stupid" to me.
Even my name contains that "stupid" character :)
Although I have to agree with him I wouldn't use it in a Wifi password either.
That makes me wonder - how long before someone manages to put an emoji in their legal name?
Every language that is not American English is "stupid"?
No diacritics in Latin, either!
æ?
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It was a long password phrase. One of the words just happened to be in my mother tongue.
I'm baffled that the standard US keyboard layout doesn't even have the ° character, something I use all the time.
I think we typically get around this by writing things like "122 degrees", "50C", "122F", etc. in informal settings.
It does have that character. Press Option-Shift-8.
The same Option key that isn't on the standard US layout either?
You only need access to two symbols to be able to write an excellent password. But that doesn't mean it would be reasonable to, for example, restrict a password to only allow 1 and 0.
I had to use a system once that accepted the "stupid characters" ( and ) in the password on account creation, but not on login...