Troubleshooting an irritating password issue. There's an application we are using that requires a login; I type in the password, it tells me it's wrong.
If I open a password manager and copy and paste the password in from that, even though it's the same text and I've checked there are no invisible spaces included, the pasted password works.
I'm wondering if there is a specific character encoding being evaluated by the application and the character encoding is preserved in the password manager, but not when I'm typing in the password manually.
Is there a utility or method that can be used to determine if there's a difference between the text I'm entering and the text being pasted, including the encoding?
The platform is Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows 7.