Special Character Problem

Raymond C. Rodgers sinful622 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 03:56:19 UTC 2008


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?

Thanks,
Raymond




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