This is not actually a bug. The character before the '$' character are the salt value which may contain unprintable characters. However, to make editing .conf files easier I've committed a change that ensures only printable characters are used in new salt values.
This is not actually a bug. The character before the '$' character are the salt value which may contain unprintable characters. However, to make editing .conf files easier I've committed a change that ensures only printable characters are used in new salt values.