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Do you use accented characters in passwords? Do sites in your language allow them? (just curious)
Yesterday a site (which shall remain unnamed) refused a password because it had a space in it. Why the [bleep] not? It's just another character. Don't their devs read XKCD?
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Oh, that is annoying - but not as bad as the morons who don't check the email address rules and won't accept hyphenated domains...
I end up signing up with a Ten Minute Mail address, and changing it afterwards. Strangely, these sort of idiots don't often check validity for changes, just for sign up!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My Gmail address has a dot in it (in the name part, not the domain). A lot of sites used to reject it. It is mercifully much less frequent recently.
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gmail doesn't [or at least didn't] allow hyphens with which my full name is blessed. I replaced it with a full-stop.
veni bibi saltavi
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Try having an Irish surname. I get sick of sites not taking the correct form of my surname because they think it's the start of a SQL Injection attack.
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But Pete, you were trying to type:
O' UPDATE Logins SET Password = 'HanlonIsGod'!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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It's only because the stupid password system didn't do this automatically.
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Thats nearly as good as the Internet provider that I get my home broadband from didn't like the email address that I entered to gain more information about a product.
but the email address is one that they gave me.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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In Hungarian, there are 14 vowels - a, á, e, é, i, í, o, ó, ö, ő, u, ú, ü and ű - it's bally annoying. I have an English keyboard but have to switch to Hun for the bloody stupid long double accent o and u.
veni bibi saltavi
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Use the Alt key sequences. These are the ones I use on a "regular" basis:
ALT 0223 = ß
ALT 0228 = ä
ALT 0246 = ö
ALT 0252 = ü
ALT 0196 = Ä
ALT 0214 = Ö
ALT 0220 = Ü
ALT 0207 = Ï
ALT 0235 = ë
ALT 0232 = è
ALT 0226 = â
ALT 0234 = ê
ALT 0238 = î
ALT 0244 = ô
ALT 0251 = û
ALT 0201 = É
ALT 0233 = é
ALT 0224 = à
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The problem with accents is that most keyboard do not have them naturally (dedicated keys) and finding the proper key combination is a bitch.
At one point my laptop was set to use the AZERTY (instead of (QWERTY) layout when it asked for password and that was fun!!! (my password had numbers and symbols).
I'd rather be phishing!
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I went through that sort of thing on an internal company site the other day. The page listed the requirements (length, upper, lower, digit), but didn't say that a "special character" was required (or forbidden), but threw back a vague error message when I tried to use an equal-sign. I sent an email off to the developers.
A worse thing is that there seems to be a one-password-change-per-day limit, but no one tells you about it -- so all you get is an "invalid password" message, which is absolutely untrue and unhelpful. 
A 486 I once had allowed a BIOS password -- but considered DELETE a valid character  so I had to remember something like passs<delete>word. 
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I think it's still possible to use the delete character in a Windows password. At least Ctrl+Backspace in the login window sends a delete character to the password field (instead of the now more common "delete the whole word"). I didn't really test it though as I'm afraid that I wouldn't be able to actually input that character everywhere I have to use that password 
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Been out drinking with Damian S for the past 3 hours.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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And where have you left Damian? Will he make a full recovery? 
veni bibi saltavi
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Check under the tables - this is Michael Martin he was drinking with...
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Nah, that's too easy. Pink tutu, wellies and a slow boat to Marrakesh.
veni bibi saltavi
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Could be worse: 'He came to in a burger bar on one of Saturns moons, wearing a lady's pink crimplene hat and a pair of yellow fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name of "Emily Berkenstein".'
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sorry? You are?
veni bibi saltavi
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DeathByChocolate wrote: with a pine tree stuffed up your !**!!
Ah. You met up with DD then?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes ... and a word of warning, if he has a wicked grin on his face and offers to 'brighten your Christmas' whilst holding a set of fairy lights and a broom handle, just get away as fast as you possibly can! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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I dunno... Some people here might be into that sort of thing... And if not here, then definitely in Q/A.
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You have to be a special kind of person to hang around in Q&A and not go slightly bonkers, so you are probably right! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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