Ed Greshko wrote:
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a rather annoying problem. My company uses a special character
as a part of a password for an ftp account a Linux server, and I
cannot seem to get Fedora 9 to connect to the server as a result. All
the Windows and even Mac clients that connect to that server seem to
have no problem, it's just that I can't seem to get another Linux box
to do the same.
The character keystroke under Windows is ALT-248. Now, I've used the
Character Map in F9 to identify the character (by using the find
feature) simply as the degree symbol, though it appears slightly
different under Windows, which is apparently U+00B0. The catch is even
when I copy the password from a known good source (an Excel file
opened in OpenOffice), connection attempts to the server fail.
Although I have the power to do so, I'm very reluctant to change the
password because of my co-workers; while they're willing to change
things, they'd have to update a fair number of ftp programs, and
frankly aside from my difficulties with it under Linux, it seems to be
a pretty good password. Obviously, it should be possible to enter this
password under Linux since it was set on a Linux box, but I seem to be
out of ideas of how to do it.
Anyone have any good ideas?
I've always thought that when you entered the ALT character in Windows
you had to enter it with a leading 0. So, ALT-248 really should be
typed "ALT-0248".
If I type "ALT-0248" in windows I get ø while if I type "ALT-248" I do
get °.
Now you say it look slight different under windows. Maybe they actually
are different. I guess what I would do is to create a file under
windows with the character that you need and then cat it on a terminal
window and use it as the input. I would also use a hex editor to
examine the file to make sure it is the code that you think it is.
Oh...funny thing I forgot to mention....
When cat in linux the above looks different... I get º and ° and indeed
they are different one is U+00B0 and the other is U+00BA.
I get the feeling that is your difference.
Ed
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