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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by input_sh on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:06AM (#28808786)
This is in no way an educated guess, but it could be something about dealing with right-to-left language support?
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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by SahAssar on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:16AM (#28808846)
The actual character bytes do not go end-to-start in RTL text, so I have a hard time seeing it'd be that. I have no better guess though.
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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by delaaxe on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:29AM (#28808927)
But maybe humans were typing in reverse?
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