Postgres connection error when a password contains "}"

If a password contains the "}" character (closing curly brace), the database connection cannot be established.
My resources.xml:
<Resource id="Postgres Databse" type="javax.sql.DataSource">
    jdbcDriver org.postgresql.Driver
    jdbcUrl jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgresdb
    username scott
    password tiger...}
    maxActive = 250
</Resource>
Error message in the log:
2021-02-02 15:55:45 WARN [main] SqlExceptionHelper:144 - SQL Error: 0, SQLState: 28P01
2021-02-02 15:55:45 ERROR [main] SqlExceptionHelper:146 - FATAL: password authentication failed for user "scott"