Always look out when using special characters while creating your password. when creating an account on https://login.apigee.com/sign__up. It says to use them but not all of them are treated equal. Some special characters cause issues when trying to use the management api. When calling the api using basic authentication and a password containing ç,§,... it gives back the following response
"{ "code": "usersandroles.SsoAuthApiReturnedError", "message": "SSO auth API returned error", "contexts": [] }"
This can be avoided by using the management api with an access token. but keep in mind to add ";charset=utf-8" to the content type when making the request for the access token (this is at time of writing unclear in the documentation https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/system-administration/management-api-tokens). Some characters that I found to create trouble are:
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