From: Jonathan Rosenne (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 07:45:48 CST
When the keyboard in in a non-Latin state, none of the Latin letters will be
produced.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Hans Aberg
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:13 PM
> To: Behnam
> Cc: James Tu; unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: Arabic numbers
>
>
> On 16 Mar 2007, at 00:49, Behnam wrote:
>
> > The problem of Mr. Tu is a minor one, and characters to be used for
> > logging in is not really a language issue.
>
> As for account name and password, I use to suggest to only use ASCII
> letters (a-z, A-Z) and digits (0-9), as the other characters
> may move
> around with the keyboard mapping: as one may not know what keyboard
> mapping is in use, and one cannot see what password one is
> typing, it
> can otherwise be quite difficult and frustrating to log in if the
> keyboard mapping for some reason has changed. :-) (A good password
> should contain at least one character and one digit, good to mix
> uppercase and lowercase characters, and should not be easily
> derivable from the words in a dictionary.) Some Latin script
> keyboards may have some ASCII letters in different places
> than the US
> (like the German), so it may be prudent to not use those letters for
> this purpose then. I do not know how it works with keyboard mappings
> for non-Latin scripts.
>
> So I think one should consider what method is most reliable for
> logins, taking into account what keyboard mappings may be in use, or
> move into place by accident.
>
> Hans Aberg
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