On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:01:12 +0200 Mark Davis ☕️ <m...@macchiato.com> wrote:
> I've heard some concerns, mostly around the UI for people typing in > passwords; that they get frustrated when they have to type their > password on different devices: > > 1. A device may not have keyboard mappings with all the keys for > their language. The typographers will probably give English as an example! Where's the en dash key? > 2. The keyboard mappings across devices vary where they put keys, > especially for minority script characters using some pattern of > shift/alt/option/etc.. So the pattern of keys that they use on one > may be different than on another. Even ASCII can have problems. A password containing '#' and '|' can't be entered when a physical US keyboard (102 keys) is interpreted using a mapping for a British keyboard (103 keys). (There seem to be different conventions as to which key is missing.) Richard.