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Can you use non-standard characters to create a bitcoin brain wallet? Ex. Chinese characters, ascii characters using the numberpad with ALT key.
Is there downsides to this?
Can you use non-standard characters for creating a Bitcoin Brain Wallet?
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In short words: yes.
But you should know the algorithm how brainwallets are generated. Nobody guarantees that brainwallets on different services are generated with the same algorithm.
So would a hash of the following two chinese characters: 中國 have a collision with any of the combinations of all the standard usa keyboard character combinations? – Patoshi パトシ – 2015-07-06T17:11:34.653
I think that brainwallets should convert string to utf-8. Check it yourself – amaclin – 2015-07-06T18:53:56.667
how do i check if it converts it to utf-8 ? – Patoshi パトシ – 2015-07-06T19:12:44.077
just tried the following: 台北 is the equivalent of 台北 ... as tested here: http://www.pinyin.info/tools/converter/chars2uninumbers.html -- but when used to generate an address via bitaddress its different.
– Patoshi パトシ – 2015-07-06T19:21:11.620This is html-encoding, not utf-8 – amaclin – 2015-07-07T06:28:31.910