Supported special characters

Use only supported special characters when creating user names and passwords. Supported characters vary depending upon where they are used.

In all of the below listed cases, the standard alphanumeric characters, a-z, A-Z, 0-9 are supported. The special characters allowed or specifically excluded from particular use are typical to standard English keyboards. See the table below to verify the special characters that can be used in names or passwords.

TLS certificate: Do not use at sign ( @ ) in passwords
Wildcards: The asterisk ( * ) is supported.
Windows: Do not use the pipe ( | ) or semicolon ( ; ) in user names or passwords.
Worksheet: Do not use the asterisk ( * ), question mark ( ? ), or bracket left or right ( [ ] ) in the worksheet name.
Database: Do not use percent ( % ) or space ( ) in the database name.; Do not use semicolon ( ; ) in the database username or password.

Supported characters

Characters supported for authentication are acceptable for both user names and passwords. In the table:

Supported means the character is explicitly supported for that use.
Do not use means the character is explicitly not supported for that use.
Double dash (--) means results with using the character for that use are unknown.


Character	Windows authentication	Control Room authentication	Database name, username, or password	JSON Web Token authentication
ampersand ( & )	Supported	Supported	--	Supported
angle bracket, left or right ( < > )	Supported	--	--	--
apostrophe, straight single ( ' )	Supported	--	--	--
asterisk *( )**	Supported	--	--	--
at sign ( @ )	Supported	Supported	--	Supported
braces left or right ( { } )	Supported	--	--	--
bracket left or right ( [ ] )	Supported	--	--	--
caret ( ^ )	Supported	--	--	--
colon ( : )	Supported	--	--	--
dollar sign ( $ )	Supported	Supported	--	Supported
equal sign ( = )	Supported	--	--	--
exclamation point ( ! )	Supported	Supported	--	Supported
hyphen ( - )	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
parenthesis, left or right ( ( ) )	Supported	--	--	--
percent ( % )	Supported	Supported	Do not use	Supported
period ( . )	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
pipe ( \| )	Do not use	--	--	--
plus sign ( + )	Supported	--	--	--
number sign ( # )	Supported	Supported	--	Supported
question mark ( ? )	Supported	--	--	--
semicolon ( ; )	Do not use	--	Do not use	--
slash, forward or backward ( / \ )	Supported	--	--	--
space	Supported	--	Do not use	--
underscore ( _ )	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported

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Supported special characters