[JDEV] Problems with umlauts in account password?

Tue Aug 27 14:44:03 CDT 2002

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 admin at jabber.fsinf.de wrote:

> When creating a new jabber (jabberd 1.4.2) account with Psi 0.8.6 (Win) or
> WinJab 1.1.0.1 and with umlauts in the password the account seems to be
> unuseable (authentification fails).  The password "äöü" shows up as
> "<C3><A4><C3><B6><C3><BC>" in the user's spool file. I tried direct
> telneting to the server but even plain text auth [1] failed.

It failed because I forgot supplying the resource ;-).

> Is this a server bug?

No, it's a bug in the clients. The password has to be supplied (for plain
text auth) or hashed (for digest auth) in UTF-8.

Since this seems to be a common mistake in clients what about adding a
"use UTF-8" notice to
http://www.jabber.org/ietf/draft-miller-xmpp-im-00.html
section 3.3.1?

Regards