Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device

Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by josefx on Saturday October 09, 2021 @03:22PM (#28812477)

I hope Facebook passwords are limited to US ASCII, because I seem to remember that there are country specific conversion rules for various Unicode characters that may or may not be subject to change, not to mention the lack of 1:1 mapping for case conversions. Example the German lower case ß converts to SS, so does ss. Of course they also created an upper case variant ẞ of ß a few years ago so who knows what mapping any software will use.

Going further to avoid collisions that could happen between words like massen and maßen when upper cased the rule of thumb was to convert ß to SZ when that happened, so getting the correct upper case would have also required a full German dictionary.

TL;DR: Upper/Lower case conversion is complex, avoid it if possible.

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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by josefx on Sunday October 10, 2021 @04:21AM (#28816742)

Small addition since I completely forgot it: Since here the attempt is to fix caps lock issues the upper case of ß also depends on the users keyboard layout, for my keyboard ß would map to ?. Does anyone even have a list of all the keys that map to ? in different keyboard layouts?

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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by ademarre on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:07PM (#28812802)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8265

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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by josefx on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:31PM (#28813007)

Correct me if I am wrong but this doesn't seem to allow case conversion:

> Case Mapping Rule: There is no case mapping rule (because mapping uppercase and titlecase code points to their lowercase equivalents would lead to false accepts and thus to reduced security).

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