An option to exclude certain letters or special characters

[cmn-it]

Code Contribution Proposal

Hello everyone,

Especially when you are working in the IT environment, you often use different keyboard layouts. If you can then enter passwords manually and not via copy&paste, this is complicated when typing and often leads to incorrect login attempts. Especially if you cannot display the password.

I currently edit the passwords manually after creating them with the generator to exclude the most common special cases in the password. With the European keyboard layout, Y and Z are often swapped or the - and / are not in the same position.

Ideally, there would be an option to exclude certain characters and letters globally or per user which are then not taken into account during password generation.

[PeterV989]

I wrote something in the feature request blog to this effect. My frustration lies in the fact that more sites are requiring special characters but there is no standardized set of special characters. I'd like to see a way to include or exclude a list of special characters. I thought about maybe copying the list the site has and paste it into an input box. Then BW could parse it and set checkboxes next to the allowed characters and reset the checkboxes next to the allowed characters. My thinking was only the punctuation symbols, but I suppose it could be expanded to any valid keyboard character.