Comment by sltkr
1 year ago
Surprisingly, no, or at least it's not common.
I'm from a country that has 6-digit PINs on most cards, and I've traveled to e.g. the United States where people are surprised that credit card PINs can be more than 4 digits, but in my experience, terminals accept them just fine. It seems like they are designed to suggest a PIN is only 4 digits but they will happily accept more. So while you're entering your PIN, the display looks something like:
[....]
[*...]
[**..]
[***.]
[****]
[*****]
[******]
And then you hit OK and the PIN is accepted.
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