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    alphanumeric 'stuff'
    « on: November 14, 2011, 08:49:09 PM »
    Hope I spelled that right ? Anyway, when trying to register a password for some site, I try to make it as secure as possible, using a variety of letters, symbols & etc. Often, I get a message that I need to use alpha numeric symbols or whatever. Give me some advice here, please ?
    And thanks for answering my first post.  :)

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    Re: alphanumeric 'stuff'
    « Reply #1 on: November 14, 2011, 10:13:55 PM »
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    In computers designed for English language users, alphanumeric (sometimes seen as ) are those comprised by the combined set of the 26 alphabetic characters, A to Z, and the 10 Arabic numerals, 0 to 9. In some usages, the alphanumeric character set may include both upper and lower case letters, punctuation marks, and symbols (such as @, &, and *, for example). For languages other than English, alphanumeric characters include letter variations such as é and ç. For some computer usages, such as file naming, alphanumeric characters are strictly limited to the 26 alphabetic characters and 10 numerals; however, for other usages, such as programming, other keyboard symbols are sometimes permitted.
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