> On 1 Oct 2015, at 07:19, Marc Durdin <m...@keyman.com> wrote:
> 
> 2.       The number of dots corresponds to the number of code points, which 
> is misleading with complex scripts or advanced input methods: you won’t 
> necessarily see one dot per keystroke; in some cases, typing a character may 
> replace a dot with another dot or even delete a dot.

Lots of systems have a bug where supplementary code points show up as two dots 
instead of one, due to UTF-16 being used internally. OS X is an example. Demo 
(open in your browser):

    data:text/html,<input type=password value=&#x1D306;>

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