On Mon, 16 May 2016 22:11:32 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
>[Default] On 16 May 2016 14:33:18 (John Mattson) wrote:
>
>> I... On a trip it Italy, I attempted to login to some
>>websites ...
>
>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.
>
... And meet your admins' and auditors' criteria for password strength.
https://xkcd.com/936/
But if the OP was trying to login to websites, EBCDIC should hardly
have been a consideration. (Unless he was using an EBCDIC terminal
to access an ASCII website.)
-- gil
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