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I installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Beta1 and chose a password with non-ascii
characters.
After the installation of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 beta I tried to login and
realized that the keyboard was in english and there was no way to type stuff
like áéíóúçñ¿ so there was no login and no ubuntu for me.
However, Ubuntu login screen has accessibility features and a combo
where I could change the keyboard layout to Spain, I was able to type
those non-ascii characters once. The login failed anyway (maybe I typed
it wrong) but the next time I tried to type I noticed that modifier keys
like tilde did not work (a * appeared when the keyboard was expected to
wait for another keystroke for a character as 'a' for á).
In the meantime, the keyboard layout combo stayed in "Spain" while I was
typing in english; it only worked once.
The on-screen keyboard was also useless because it only displayed the
English keyboard layout regardless of the layout selection in the combo
below.
Passwords with non-ascci characters are cool because they are even harder to
guess.
PS: BTW, the accessibility icon in the login screen is almost invisible,
since it's white on an almost-white background.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Login screen uses keyboard in english, though user uses other distribution
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/546121
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