Re: Unicode in passwords

From: Mathias Bynens <mathias_at_qiwi.be>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:59:22 +0200

> On 1 Oct 2015, at 07:19, Marc Durdin <marc_at_keyman.com> wrote:
>
> 2. The number of dots corresponds to the number of code points, which is misleading with complex scripts or advanced input methods: you won’t necessarily see one dot per keystroke; in some cases, typing a character may replace a dot with another dot or even delete a dot.

Lots of systems have a bug where supplementary code points show up as two dots instead of one, due to UTF-16 being used internally. OS X is an example. Demo (open in your browser):

    data:text/html,<input type=password value=&#x1D306;>
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