Google <invariant character set> A problem is not just that the hex associated with a given graphic may be different, but also issued of the ASCII graphic, the Italian keyboard mapping, and the ASCII to EBCDIC translation table.
! is always a big problem! Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 2:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Special characters in passwords from non-US computers (Italy) I try to include the special characters on standard US keyboards in some of my passwords. On a trip it Italy, I attempted to login to some websites (not anything very secure of course) and I found that the passwords always failed. I could only conclude that the local hex encoding for the ! @ and/or # characters was different from what it is on a US keyboard. Now since these are in pretty common use, especially @ and #, I thought they would be no problem, but I was wrong. Now, I could carry my passwords on a US thumb drive and paste them, but I would rather find out what special characters are common to most European keyboards, and select from those. I have not found anything helpful in Google. Does anyone have and information on this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
