passwords with UFT8 chars?

Uwe Brauer oub at mat.ucm.es
Fri Sep 2 14:42:16 CEST 2022


>>> "MA" == Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> writes:

> El día viernes, septiembre 02, 2022 a las 10:33:13a. m. +0200, Uwe Brauer via Gnupg-users escribió:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Sorry for this elementary question, but I can't find an answer googling.
>> 
>> Is it possible to have a password that contains UTF8 chars, like Arabic,
>> Hebrew, Chinese or some IPA symbols??? That concerns also gpgsm

> You can put whatever you want as password, also Russian in UTF-8. The
> question is beeing able to key it in on any keyboard.

Thanks, most of the distributions today come with a variety of keyboards
for different input methods. To be on the very safe side you could save
the password UFT8 in a password manager.

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