> On 1 Oct 2015, at 07:19, Marc Durdin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2. The number of dots corresponds to the number of code points, which
> is misleading with complex scripts or advanced input methods: you won’t
> necessarily see one dot per keystroke; in some cases, typing a character may
> replace a dot with another dot or even delete a dot.
Lots of systems have a bug where supplementary code points show up as two dots
instead of one, due to UTF-16 being used internally. OS X is an example. Demo
(open in your browser):
data:text/html,<input type=password value=𝌆>
