Thanks to everyone,
First let me say ECBDIC was not a consideration, since if I ever had to
access my home mainframe from overseas it would most likely be with my own
laptop with security of my choice, not what a hotel or cyber cafe
provides. But using the solution I think I have found a local com
This is just some wild guessing and assumptions: In Windows there's a
Language option in the Control Panel where you can specify Italy and
many other places I've never been to. I just did that and the top row
on my keyboard comes out like this when I hold the shift key:
EN English: !@#$%^&*
On Mon, 16 May 2016 22:11:32 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
>[Default] On 16 May 2016 14:33:18 (John Mattson) wrote:
>
>>I... On a trip it Italy, I attempted to login to some
>>websites ...
>
>The @ sign,# sign and $ sign are problematic within EBCDIC since they
>are nationals and vary by countr
[Default] On 16 May 2016 14:33:18 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
johnmattson...@gmail.com (John Mattson) wrote:
>I try to include the special characters on standard US keyboards in
>some of my passwords. On a trip it Italy, I attempted to login to some
>websites (not anything very secure of
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Subject: Special characters in passwords from non-US computers (Italy)
I try to include the special characters on standard US keyboards in some of
my passwords
I try to include the special characters on standard US keyboards in
some of my passwords. On a trip it Italy, I attempted to login to some
websites (not anything very secure of course) and I found that the
passwords always failed. I could only conclude that the local hex encoding
for the ! @
