Re: Encryption password fail on install > internationalisation <

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> 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.

This is indeed the cause of the problem - complex passwords and disk
encryption. People are being encouraged to use both.

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

One solution proposed more to illustrate the absurdity of the problem
is that encryption software and other password systems could warn
users, when they are creating their passwords, of any keypresses that
they will not be able to recreate when on reboot the o/s lays a US
keymap over their 'foreign' 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.

Amen.
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