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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This NIP defines a method by which clients can encrypt (and decrypt) a user's pr
 Symmetric Encryption Key derivation
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-PASSWORD = read from the user
+PASSWORD = Read from the user. The password should be unicode normalized to NFKC format to ensure that the password can be entered identically on other computers/clients.
 
 LOG\_N = Let the user or implementer choose one byte representing a power of 2 (e.g. 18 represents 262,144) which is used as the number of rounds for scrypt. Larger numbers take more time and more memory, and offer better protection: