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Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The same character encoding that would break emoji would break a significant portion of the words names, so if your system can't handle it, then you deserve all the trouble that you run into.

Unicode isn't that hard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong, but some systems, especially smaller ones are intended for English-only situations (or originally were) so non-English language situations might not be as well tested and/or may cause things to break.

Remember there are some sites that still refuse service if you put a " in your password. I'm not saying it's right, but it's a definite possibility.