# Min Password Length vs Block Common Passwords

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Mars 2, 2017, 4:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207 "2017-03-02T04:50:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Post date:** [Mars 14, 2017, 11:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207/24 "2017-03-14T23:42:50Z")

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`😀` is four octets in UTF-8: [Base64 visualizer](http://kevinlitchfield.com/base64-visualizer/?string=%F0%9F%98%80)

I have no idea why Javascript gets that count. (UTF-16?) But `😀` does show as `⏺⏺` in the password field of Discourse (for me).

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