£ character seems to produce wrong hash

[biddster]

If I hash asfd£ with salt $6$a7a5dc2fa314dda0 using this library I get:

$6$a7a5dc2fa314dda0$QWeHb0gFesNAVmsvX63.q5wbsV6./f7fmpF.DpqhTWzTQBO08koP65eqCOyTSMw4o8mnawc2hAtUf6f.P6VLb1

I can't login on a unix machine with the above hash. I try to gen the same thing using python and I get:

$ python -c 'import crypt; print crypt.crypt("asdf£", "$6$a7a5dc2fa314dda0")'
$6$a7a5dc2fa314dda0$E1GTcgT52oJFvhETaKwBk26Gy0GIzNQu2Mv4.UZwXp00CQi/8vC3IQKcrmpqbUaM2jFMOcDoShcxo1Mrt/Z5k/

If I take the £ out then the hashes are the same.

I've looked at the implementation and I can't see where the issue may lie.

[mvo5]

I suspect the difference is the handling of unicode in nodejs and python. But I haven't looked deep enough to verify this.

[romuald]

From what I can see, this is because the passwords are "encoded" in latin1 (wheras the python version is using utf-8)

I've tried to check how to use an utf8 version of the password as base but failed unfortunately