[RADIATOR] Unicode in nthash passwords

[Hosek, Ondrej]

Greetings,

On Wed, 2026-04-15 at 10:35 +0000, Hosek, Ondrej via radiator wrote:
> The easiest option would be to rewrite ASCIItoUnicode to
> interpret its argument as UTF-8 instead of ISO 8859-1, but this is
> guaranteed to break compatibility with existing setups. A more
> flexible
> alternative would be to allow administrators to specify the encoding
> of
> incoming passwords for the purpose of NT hashing; I am not sure
> whether
> this option would be best placed on a <Handler>, <Client>, <AuthBy>
> or
> different level, but if the default is kept ISO 8859-1 and can be
> reconfigured to UTF-8, this will probably solve the issue.

Can I perhaps get input from a Radiator Software developer on this?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,
~~ Ondra Hošek
TU Wien, network team