[moneydance] Severe Bank of America bill pay problems

[David Schuetz]

> It might be more secure to use characters outside of A-Z a-z 0-9 but when
> traversing different systems, OSes, code pages etc. etc. it is safer to
> stay away from them. I *have* seen passwords set and then be rejected when you
> try and login - Going from a PC running Win to a Solaris box for example.

Point taken.  I've certainly tried to avoid fighting UTF or Unicode battles, whenever I can, and so fighting that in a web-form that's meant to be used by lots of different systems -- yeah, I can see that.  

Of course, I think we're supposed to have standards to deal with that sort of stuff, and I'd certainly expect that at least plain printable ASCII should make it through without problems.  

I wonder how that plays in other countries?  Or do japanese banks use roman (ASCII) letters in all their userids / passwords, too?


david.
(this ends up being an extension of another peeve of mine -- why the heck *can't* I type the spaces when entering my credit card number?  it's a helluva lot easier to visually verify the number if I break it up into four-digit blocks, and it takes a whole 7 characters of perl to strip the spaces after the server receives it.  but now I'm straying again. :) )