Re: Encryption password fail on install > internationalisation <

Am 22.07.2014 22:14, schrieb Mark Ballard:
> But when install is complete, in my instance at least, the computer
> goes to a command screen and says, before prompting for the just given
> password to open the encrypted disk: "Note: only US keyboard layout is
> supported".

Hello Mark,

I think that the issue is rather in this part. I don't know if it is
possible to change, but I think it would be much better to enable Non-US
keyboards in the boot loader as well.

Forcing a US keyboard is more difficult for some physical keyboards than
others. A keyboard like QWERTZ is still relatively similar, but AZERTY
is already quite different. Especially if one wants to use special
characters ($, +, [ etc) for the password, most keyboard layouts do not
match at all.

Also, partitions may be decrypted from an already running system, where
logically the keyboard layout is already set to the own keyboard.

Therefore, I think it would be more prudent to change the forcing of a
US keyboard in the boot loader rather than forcing everything else to
use US as well.
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