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I am tired of websites imposing limitations on passwords, but not sharing what those are. I use a password generator, and rarely know if Unicode characters are allowed, if there's a limit on the number of characters, etc.
I've come across websites where dashes "-" are forbidden. My banking website only allows a maximum of 16 characters. Sometimes there's a note below the password box, sometimes they don't tell you until your password fails, and sometimes they don't ever tell you. If I don't know what the restrictions are, I'll end up throwing a cheap password at it until I can find out what's acceptable.