[Bug 161411] UI Better wording for ASCII-only characters

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161411

--- Comment #6 from Tuomas Hietala <tuomas.hietala at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #4)
> Unlike the Unicode 'Basic Latin' block, referring to ASCII is a problem as
> non-standard Extended-ASCII and localized 8-bit character mappings remain
> prevalent. 
> 
> And also utf-8 is broken for password entry as noted in bug 50400--that our
> SfxPasswordDialog::AllowAsciiOnly() used in pw dialogs exclusively validates
> the 7-bit 128 character ASCII code set.
> 
> That is what needs to be conveyed.
> 
> (In reply to Tuomas Hietala from comment #3)
> >...
> > * ""Only Basic Latin (a.k.a. ASCII) characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and the most
> > common punctuation marks) can be entered"
> > Something for everyone?
> 
> Make that "Only Unicode 'Basic Latin' (a.k.a ASCII) characters (A-Z, a-z,
> 0-9 and the most common punctuation marks) can be entered"

Yes, that would be even more complete.

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