Support for ÆØÅ characters in dictionary about hsxkpasswd HOT 4 CLOSED

You are correct - at the moment the library actively strips out non-alphanumeric characters from the dictionary. I made the decision to strip accents early in the project's history to simplify the entropy calculations, but with hind-sight I now see that was a mistake.

My plan to fix the problem is to add a configuration variable to turn on or off the suppression of accented characters as desired - users could then chose between a more varied alphabet, or more accurate entropy calculations.

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Ah, I see. So it wasn't just my playing tricks on me ;-)

Yes, I'd love the option to turn on these characters.
Is manually defining the special characters we want a good way to go? Like
extrachar = "æøå";
Because that is all the characters I need myself.
Would that help preserve the accuracy of the entropy calculations?
Btw, may I ask what it means that the entropy calculations gets less accurate when introducing this kinds of characters?

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This functionality is now ready for testing in the CPAN-Prep branch: https://github.com/bbusschots/xkpasswd.pm/tree/CPAN-Prep

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Great :)

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