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Why not just turn on the emoji keyboard and use unicode symbols instead of regular characters the standard keyboard.

An emoji password like happyface heart pizza devil hospital trafficlight cow moon is probably going to be more secure than any word/number combination that could be dictionary attacked.

This obviously assumes the site properly encodes Unicode, but also somewhat limits use for most people to devices with the keyboard.

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Interesting idea, but it would be harder for me to remember 30 characters of emoji on a keyboard I don't routinely use than 30 characters of text and symbols which have, to me, some internal order, on keyboards I have used for the past...18 years?

I don't know how you get to the emoji keyboard on iOS. It would also be a little annoying having to do this on multiple platforms (I have considered using 1p on Windows at some point; no real argument that a well configured win 7 or 8 is worse than OSX, now).

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