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Comment on Ask HN: Is there a good reason for disallowing some characters from a password?

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I think there was a story about somebody locking himself out of macOS, because he couldn't enter Emoji on the login screen.

Also, since my password manager types letters one by one, I wouldn't use tabs or line feeds.

Maybe don't use grapheme clusters that have multiple valid encodings and make up for it by using a longer password instead?

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