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# Thursday, March 23, 2006
When is an X not an X?

Kevin was typing passwords in and couldn't determine where a particular X came from. It looked different than the other X in the same password. This prompted the following research:

Arial Unicode MS Anonymous
Latin Capital Letter X X X
Latin Small Letter x x x
Greek Capital Letter Chi Χ Χ
Greek Small Letter Chi χ χ
Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha Х Х
Cyrillic Small Letter Ha х х
Tibetan Sign Rdel Nag Gcig ༝ ༝
Roman Numeral Ten Ⅹ Ⅹ
Small Roman Numeral Ten ⅹ ⅹ
Hangzhou Numeral Four 〤 〤
Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter X Ｘ Ｘ
Fullwidth Latin Small Letter x ｘ ｘ
Box Drawings Light Diagonal Cross ╳ ╳
Saltire ╳ ╳
Multiplication X ✕ ✕

In the end the culprit was "Multiplication X", but I have no idea how anyone typed that in...

Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:57:23 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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