Re: Unicode in passwords

From: Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet_at_viagenie.ca>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 08:30:58 -0400

On 5 Oct 2015, at 8:14, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

> I recently came across this bug report where a filesystem encrypted
> with a Cyrillic script password could not be decrypted at boot time:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681250

And?

 From what I understand, this is related to the fact that the OS has two
levels of boot/console/installation scripts and the first level is very
basic regarding i18n (i.e. us-ascii only guaranteed to work).

Marc.

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