# Min Password Length vs Block Common Passwords

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [02.Март.2017 04:50:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207 "2017-03-02T04:50:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [02.Март.2017 07:18:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/min-password-length-vs-block-common-passwords/58207/5 "2017-03-02T07:18:10Z")

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After pondering this a bit longer, it does bring up some relevant issues.

- What about other languages? Surely “monkey1234” or even “password” itself is not a common password in languages other than English?

- What about languages with ideograms, where one character is an entire word. Where ✅ 🐎 🔋 📎 is [roughly equivalent to](https://xkcd.com/936/) “correct horse battery staple” in English.

So perhaps the case here is stronger than I thought for **making this file dynamic so it can be loaded per language at a minimum** @neil? That also opens the door to “we want to make 6 chars the minimum password, even if we know the risks are dire?”

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