xnox, I have no intent to improve the password strength verification on the 
installer itself. That was a suggestion on the first post. My intentions in 
this thread is to make the same relative rules apply to the installer 
verification algorithm. As absolute ones, such as treating ñ as a special 
character are inappropriate in spanish or treating ç makes no sense in 
portuguese or french, since they are part of the local alphabet.
It was mentioned and link-referred that length makes stronger passwords but not 
if it's a known phrase or, lets say, country name. Including thousands of words 
per language/locale/keymap it's very hard, acknowledged. But making "ñ" look 
the same to an "n" or an "ç" the same to the "c" when spanish, french or 
portuguese are the declared locale/language on the installation process does 
not seem like an awkward request to fix the misbehavior of the password 
strength verification.
Another idea is: lets get rid of the whole verification process on 
locales/languages other than english, since it does not reflect any good 
practice at all, specially, compared to the relative situation in english 
settings.
To explain in more detail my previous paragraph: If I choose england as my 
country, english as my language, english as my keymap, the unitedkingdom 
password is marked as weak. It certainly should. But if my locales are spanish, 
my country espaÑa and my keymap the ES one, españa is a fair password to the 
installer. That is not the same behavior when taken relative to the declared 
variables (keymap,country,language) witch, at least to me, looks like a bug.
You mention that you do not want it to be impossible to achieve "fair/..." 
passwords, that is a merely indication of the right track to a strong password. 
Well, the country name should not be on that path. I really think someone else 
thinks like me, otherwise, why is unitedstatesofamerica (21 character long) a 
weak password?

The bug call remains. I believe everything to fix this mis behavior is
already in place.

PS: Thank you to the pointers to improve the verification, I'll see what can I 
suggest in through those channels.
PS2: for the previous, present and following posts, I apologize for any 
language related confusion. English is not my first language and I sincerely 
understand that's a barrier to comprehend each other.

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  Ubuntu should encourage stronger passwords using stronger algorithms,
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