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What do you make of it please?

William

Hello Jack

Thank you for replying.

I was wondering if anyone would notice that I expressed a "hope" not an "expect".

So I felt that I was being criticised for something different from what I had written.

My approach in putting forward the idea was simply that usually in order to set a password or enter a previously set  password, one gets a text box in which to enter data.

On a tablet device one would have a virtual keyboard with a touchscreen to select characters.

But people use various scripts, Latin, Greek, Japanese etc.

I was just thinking of an option to have a display of 64 emoji in an 8 by 8 array and have a particular array as a standard rather than each app developer choose a different array. I thought that that could be helpful.

So everything except the virtual keyboard would be the same as for an existing system.

So I don't understand why the gentleman has suggested all that process for me to do.

It just seemed to me to be a harmless, well-meaning suggestion, that could be very helpful in some situations, not some what he wrote.

I am just wondering how my post has been interpreted by others.

William

Thank you for replying.

The reason that I thought of emoji is that there was mention in the thread of people in Japan using Latin characters for passwords due to difficulties in entering Japanese characters.Emoji are scipt-independent so could be used by people who have a great variety of native languages.

And with emoji many people could probably be able to remember which one to use as they would know the word to descvribe that image in their own language.

William