[Default] On 16 May 2016 14:33:18 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (John Mattson) wrote:
> 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. The @ sign,# sign and $ sign are problematic within EBCDIC since they are nationals and vary by country, the hex value for a $ is used for the pound sterling sign in Britain and the Yen sign in Japan. You need to use special characters that are both stable across all EBCDIC code pages and all ISO (ASCII) code pages and are acceptable as input for passwords. Clark Morris > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
