Feature changed by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #308692, revision 5 Title: support keyboard layout switching in initrd openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable + openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Important 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308692

Feature changed by: Dustin Falgout (falgout) Feature #308692, revision 8 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! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308692

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

Feature changed by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #308692, revision 12 Title: support keyboard layout switching in initrd openSUSE Distribution: New 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. + #5: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) (2016-11-16 11:21:13) + remove needinfo for myself. nowadays dracut handles this -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308692