Galaxy S3 does not support special characters in passwords?

[Takashi Alekseev]

Hi,

This is my first real android phone, so I'll probably be on this board a lot.

I've got this situation: My Twitter password has a special character in it (the percent sign, % ).

From what I've gathered, the android Twitter app refuses to log in properly with the percent sign in the password. If I change my faceTwitter password to something-not-containing-a-percent-sign, then login is successful.

This would be easy enough for someone else to verify, just temporarily change your Twitter password (don't use an android phone) to include a special character (%, ^, &, *, etc..) and see whether Android can login with that.

I've been able to login using special-character passwords on iOS and Windows with no issues.

My questions are: 1. Does Android not handle special characters in passwords properly?
2. Does this fall to the Android community, Twitter staff, both, or neither?
3. Has anyone noticed this in any other apps (is this limited only to Twitter)?

Thank you very much.


Thanks.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

This isn't an S3 issue, or even an Android issue. It may be an issue with the Twitter app. I don't use Twitter, but I use special characters in passwords for other apps.

I think I've use the percent sign in passwords, but won't swear to that. You might try a different special character, like #, $, @ or &, in case it's specifically the percent sign the app is having trouble with.