I shan't mention one of my former employers then who advised users to avoid the GBP STG symbol because it caused issues with their ANSI (!!!) password read/write mechanisms. *eyeroll* Stefan -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+stefan.paetow=ja.net@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers Sent: 14 May 2014 16:52 To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: Re: Mac OSX + PEAP/MSCHAPv2 + Special characters in password On 14/05/14 16:36, Stefan Paetow wrote:
Unfortunately all too much software makes that mistake. :-/
Indeed. The context I've seen it was early version of MIT Kerberos encoding the password to iso-8859-1 versus Windows 2000 which encodes to UTF8. In that situation, any character not in the basic US-ASCII range 32-126 inclusive was unsafe to use cross-platform. We still advise people to avoid non-ASCII characters in passwords :o( The IT industry really is a bad joke, told by a malicious higher power... - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238