Hello Mike thanks for your reply, In the meanwhile I’ve narrowed down the cause 
somewhat.

An experiment yesterday from a private Win10 Client within the same vlan as the 
Guacamole installation showed Guacamole RDP with Swissgerman keyboard to work 
flawlessly.

Suspecting my NGINX Proxy also turned out to be baseless as rerouting my local 
client to include NGINX still worked fine.

I’ve been able to narrow the cause down to be within the corporate environment 
from which I mainly access my RDP Host via Guacamole.
Not sure where the problem lies there as several components are involved 
ranging from Browser Isolation to Proxy with SSL interception etc.

But all of this of course is of no concern to the Guacamole Team.
Thanks to the Guacamole Team for doing a great job

Von: Mike Jumper <[email protected]>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. September 2021 16:46
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: Problem using special characters on the SwissGerman keyboard

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 5:14 AM Hendrik Jan Boven 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi there this is my first post here to this mailing list so please be patient 
if I have misunderstood something.

I’m using Guecamole for remote access RDP & SSL connection into my HomeLab and 
almost all is working just fine.
The installation is using the official Docker images with Mariadb and is behing 
an nginx reverseproxy running in Docker as well.

When I connect to a RDP host I get a working connection and almost all is fine 
just the keyboard is giving me problems.
Both the connecting client and the RDP Host have the SwissGerman keyboard 
Layout. 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ#Swiss_(German,_French,_Italian,_Romansh),_Liechtenstein,_Luxembourg)

When I started typing I noticed some reproducible problem using the special 
characters. If I start typing the keys from the top character row from left to 
right I should get:
qwertzuiopü

However I do get:
qwertzuiopüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüü  and I have to press any other key or backspace or 
so to stop the repeated üüüüü from coming.

If I immediately try again to do the same I just get:
qwertzuiop  and the ü does not work

After a minute or so of waiting I can type the ü again and get it to show up. 
But that trick works only once or twice then stops working completely and from 
there on I have to use copy paste to get these characters.

What version of Guacamole are you using and what platform and browser is being 
used on the client side when you see this behavior?

When this behavior occurs, is there anything unique about the keyboard in use? 
Or is the keyboard just a standard, hardware keyboard?

Michael Jumper
CEO, Lead Developer
Glyptodon Inc<https://glyp.to/>.

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