Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / September 2007

Thank you very much for the report. I was able to reproduce this and will
log a bug on this.

The current workaround would be to change your password to not use the |
(pipe) character.

Thanks,
Rebecca

Rebecca Harriss
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit, SDET

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On 9/26/07 4:20 AM, in article
1190794859.276841.104460@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com, "E.Howl.73@gmail.com"

I have a "|" character (the character you get when u press SHIFT + \)
in my password. I have no problems signing in when using Windows Live
Messenger. However, when I try to sign-in on my Mac, it does not get
typed out. Therefore, I cannot log into my Messenger Mac because I
cannot get the correct password to log-in.

Initially, I thought there was something wrong with the keyboard
input. I have tried on other programs (Word, Excel, Entourage for Mac;
Safari; Mozilla Firefox; Mail) and the character can be typed out with
no error. To my horror, the character only does not get input when I
use Messeger for Mac.

So would anyone give a helping hand on this?