Feature changed by: Björn Voigt (bjoernv) Feature #308692, revision 10 Title: support keyboard layout switching in initrd openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Info Provider: Pierre Ducroquet (pinaraf) Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When using an encrypted root partition only plain ASCII characters are possible as passphrase. International users may want to also use special characters though. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547923 Discussion: #1: Pierre Ducroquet (pinaraf) (2010-11-15 16:05:54) This is a real issue, that has to be fixed. Users using a qwertz or an azerty layout (on another more exotic layout) will fall in that trap, and if they don't know qwerty well enough, they'll be stuck. #2: Dustin Falgout (falgout) (2013-05-12 07:26:53) Is this still an issue in current release or has this been resolved? Please provide more info by 5/22/2013 in order to keep the request open. Thanks! #3: Schwarte von Schwein (schweineschwarte) (2013-07-17 23:52:43) (reply to #2) No these issue is active! It is not resolved :( + #4: Björn Voigt (bjoernv) (2013-09-11 22:43:42) + It's not only an issue, that only ASCII characters are allowed. The + other problem is, that the password often was typed in with an + international keyboard layout in YaST Setup and later after rebooting + it should be typed in with English keyboard layout. For some users it + may be hard to find the keys for characters like _-,;/\ and so on, + especially because the password can not be seen. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308692