Some Windows products do not allow the use of international characters in the username or password. These characters may be part of an international alphabet or Asian characters. Research the characters that are allowed in recent version of Windows and cite your sources. Describe the advantage to the operating system of limiting the character set for usernames and passwords, and whether or not you suggest an alternative.
Introduction to character set:
Characters set are divided into many type of alphabet. Either, European characters or Asian characters, these characters are known as special character. Special character is a character that cannot be found on the keyboard. They can be inserted by using character map or by pressing a combination of keys on the keyboard.
Character map enable us to view the characters that are available in a selected fond. By, using character map we can copy individual characters or a group of characters to the clipboard and paste them into any program that can display them. By clicking the Start button, All Program, Accessory, System Tool, Characters Map. These are steps to open characters map. In another way, we can found special characters by pressing a combination of key on keyboard:
The character set most commonly used in computers today is Unicode, a global standard for character encoding. Internally, Windows applications use the UTF-16 implementation of Unicode. In UTF-16, most characters are identified by two-byte codes. The less commonly used supplementary characters are each represented by a surrogate pair, which is a pair of two-byte codes.
If you know the *Unicode (hexadecimal) value of any character, you can use the "ALT X" keyboard shortcut to enter the character directly in your document in some programs such as Microsoft Word. This is particularly useful for all special characters that are not included in the list above (such as the R-hacek Ř (0158 ALT X)). (You must press and HOLD DOWN the