Can't sychronize with Nextcloud due to character in password out of Latin1 range

[mbreskovec]

Operating system

• Linux
• Android

Application

• Desktop
• Mobile

Hello guys, I can't synchronize my Joplin notes via Nextcloud due to error message mentioned below:

The string to be encoded contains characters outside of the Latin1 range.

I am using special characters in my password, so this is the reason probably.
Is this something what could be fixed easily, or I need to change my password instead?

[laurent22]

Yes for now the only thing to do will be to change the password as it doesn't seem that React Native supports the multiple encodings required (UTF-8 then Base64). I've added a better error message to at least make it clearer.

[Flakebi]

I was able to use UTF-8 passwords using this StackOverflow answer and replacing the code here with the following (with the require at the top of the file):

const Buffer = require("buffer").Buffer;
return new Buffer(this.options_.username() + ':' + this.options_.password()).toString('base64');