Currently looking at migrating a Cisco ASA VPN config.
I cannot enter the £ pound symbol on a PuTY session (console or telnet/ssh). Every other character works such as $ # but when I press key for £ I get nothing.
Tried TerraTerm and PuTTY on a different laptop and still get the same result.
The original existing config has VPN passwords that I need to to modify which already include the £ symbol in the config. If I copy and paste from a text file into the console it removes the £ symbol from the text. For example Passw£rd ends up as Passwrd.
I've had colleagues test this on other Cisco devices such as IOS routers and Nexus.
No idea how the £ is in the config in the first place if the ASA doesn't support that symbol.
This is taken from the ASA documentation:
The ASA CLI supports up to 255 characters (multi-byte characters) of ISO 8859-1.
So based on ASCII codes, £ is
Decimal 156
Hex 9C
Oct 234
So it should support it right?
PuTTY is set to use ISO-8859-1 (tried other settings too).
Tried using ASDM to push the preshared key such as Passw£rd and that doesn't quite work, although the £ gets sent it also adds another character!
ASDM
Result of the command: "pre-shared-key Passw£rd"
The command has been sent to the device
CLI
more system:run
pre-shared-key Passw£rd
Any ideas?
