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riskable@programming.dev 1 day agoThis just means (usually) that your system synchronizes with something that doesn’t support special characters (e.g. mainframes).
Remember kids: Mainframes suck. They’re awful legacy garbage that holds back adoption of superior, actually secure technologies. Soooo many things that make you go, “WTF?” in IT can be traced back to having to support legacy systems (like mainframes).
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
At our place it was email clients using whatever is the default encoding of Windows to encode passwords. Usually not UTF-8, like every other piece of software using that password.