Journal chill's Journal: Ancestry.com Passwords 2
When attempting to change your password on the genealogy website Ancestry.com, you get this not-so-helpful message:
New Password -- Your new password should be between 5 to 24 characters long and can be any combination of letters, numbers, and some symbols.
Really. Some symbols. Not that they're going to tell you which ones. Oh no, that would be too easy. You have to guess!
The best I can figure out is some dev is just fucking with people for fun. Either that, or they had to spend way too much time writing escape code for special characters and this is payback.
For the record, so far I've determined that a period, hyphen, and underscore are all acceptable and a space is not. . - _
Ugh!
What's a symbol? (Score:2)
Why is a space considered a symbol but a letter or a 'number' is not? Is an emoticon a symbol?
Re: (Score:2)
Because a space is a symbol, like a dash, period, etc and letters and numbers are not. Letters and numbers carry the actual information, and symbols separate words and multiple character numbers from each other while carrying no information beyond "the word ends here" or "the sentence ends here" or "what follows is quotation", etc..