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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by thefreeman on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:23AM (#28809242)
This is much more excusable for email providers to prevent phishing. There are a ton of unicode points that indistinguishable from ascii letters. There are other security issues that can arise as well. Here is an example from spotify https://engineering.atspotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-userna...
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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by tsimionescu on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:32AM (#28840166)
I should have specified - this was (is?) for passwords, not usernames. I'm much more sympathetic to limited character sets in usernames, but I don't see much valid reason for doing so with passwords
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