** Description changed: - Impish Indri daily - - I cannot reproduce this bug anymore. Layout is hard-set to English, - which solves this issue but creates another issue discussed in bug - #1945848. Still, I'll leave the steps required to reproduce below: + Update: still reproducible in Resolute Racoon daily. (Edited by someone + else) Steps to reproduce: - 1) Choose any language with a character set outside of ISO 8859-1. In my case, Russian - 2) Proceed with installation. Arrive at "Who are you?" screen - 3) Type in your name in Russian layout + 1) Choose any non-Latin keyboard layout (recommended; Russian, Arabic) + 2) Proceed with installation. Arrive to the account set-up screen + 3) Type in your name in the non-Latin layout - The "Your username" field is not filled automatically 5) Try typing a username you wish to use - - It cannot recognize the characters and won't let you continue. - - It will thus complain that usernames should begin with lowercase letters + - It cannot recognise the characters and won't let you continue. + - It will thus complain that usernames should begin with lower-case letters No matter if the letters are lower or upper case, it simply cannot recognize them. - User is forced to manually add English or a similar layout that has - Latin characters. + The user cannot finish installation using the non-Latin layout. The user + is forced to manually add English or a similar layout that has Latin + characters. - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10 - Package: ubiquity 21.10.5 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-14.14-generic 5.13.1 - Uname: Linux 5.13.0-14-generic x86_64 - NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair - ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu68 - Architecture: amd64 - CasperMD5CheckResult: pass - CasperVersion: 1.465 - CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME - Date: Mon Sep 6 17:37:52 2021 - InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash --- - LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Alpha amd64 (20210905) - ProcEnviron: - TERM=xterm-256color - PATH=(custom, no user) - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> - LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash - SourcePackage: ubiquity - UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) + A good solution could be adding a fallback English (US) layout to every + non-Latin keyboard layout, or even better, letting the user to choose an + additional keyboard layout himself and a keyboard shortcut to switch + between the two keyboard layouts.
** Description changed: Update: still reproducible in Resolute Racoon daily. (Edited by someone - else) + else than the original bug reporter) Steps to reproduce: 1) Choose any non-Latin keyboard layout (recommended; Russian, Arabic) 2) Proceed with installation. Arrive to the account set-up screen 3) Type in your name in the non-Latin layout - The "Your username" field is not filled automatically 5) Try typing a username you wish to use - It cannot recognise the characters and won't let you continue. - It will thus complain that usernames should begin with lower-case letters No matter if the letters are lower or upper case, it simply cannot recognize them. The user cannot finish installation using the non-Latin layout. The user is forced to manually add English or a similar layout that has Latin characters. A good solution could be adding a fallback English (US) layout to every non-Latin keyboard layout, or even better, letting the user to choose an additional keyboard layout himself and a keyboard shortcut to switch between the two keyboard layouts. ** Attachment added: "installer-arabic.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1942774/+attachment/5929784/+files/installer-arabic.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1942774 Title: No fallback English layout on account creation screen during installation. Ubuntu installer won't accept non-Latin characters To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1942774/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
