On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 03:49:00 +0100, Marek Howard wrote: > [...] It is a bit odd though the need to set both the variable > and the command line switch.
The two things are semantically different: One (variables) defines the available character sets, while the other (command line option) selects the set to be used for an individual password. You have the choice between the "limited character set" (by default only alphanumeric) and "extended character set" (all printable characters in the ASCII range). Those character sets can be configured individually through PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET_NO_SYMBOLS and PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET. The decision of which character set to use may depend on the situation, e.g. some online services don't allow special characters, so you go for the alphanumeric variant, whereas others are fine with anything, so you go for the "full" set. > Why isn't the "no-symbols" behaviour always on when the variable is > non-empty? For instance, what if you set both PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET and PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET_NO_SYMBOLS? :-)
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