What baffles me that we are trying to convince programmers to support Unicode while many programs and websites won't even accept special symbols. In passwords.

What baffles me that we are trying to convince programmers to support Unicode while many programs and websites won't even accept special symbols. In passwords. I mean, how dumb does the system have to be to reject the @ char in the password field? Or worse yet, accept only _numbers_, as my university does. I think we did something terribly wrong somewhere in the char set conventions.