Symbol question

I’m testing out Openfire/ Spark and was getting on ok until this, I have one test user who has a pound symbol £ in the password. Any time I try to log on with this account I get an invalid username or password error!

I tried setting up another user with the same password and I get the same error! I’m pulling users from Active Directory so I can’t ask people to change their confidential passwords if they have a £ symbol in them as that would affect the whole company.

Can anyone confirm or deny that the problem is indeed the £ symbol? and more importantly can anyone suggest a fix? Are there any other unsupported symbols?

TIA for any help

gr

We have this problem today, 2 years later.

v 3.6.4

Even though AD, LDAP and Jive work with symbols, Openfire doesn’t

Actually OF-305 is 4 years old. As Openfire supports UTF-8 it should work, but it seems that the password is either not properly hashed on client side or Openfire does not convert it properly.

Hi,

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