dm-crypt passphrase asked before keyboard layout

[Frédéric Meynadier]

When performing a fresh 13.10 install and asking for full disk encryption, the passphrase is asked before the keyboard layout is chosen. Therefore the user types a password as if on a us (qwerty) layout, blindly.

On restart, user has to type the same passphrase but on the layout he has selected during the install, which can be tricky for unaware users (even without using special chars : good password often include digits, which translate to non-alphanumeric char for example on french layouts).

I think keyboard layout selection should occur *before* the passphrase is asked, or that the keyboard layout should be adequatly displayed on the passphrase selection screen (or maybe display a virtual keyboard ? or add a checkbox to authorize the chosen passphrase to appear in clear text ?)

I am rather surprised not to have found this reported already, as it seems an obvious problem that any non-us user, asking for full disk encryption, would stumble upon. My apologies if this has already been reported somewhere...

Best regards,

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 Frédéric Meynadier

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

We have a keyboard bug on every page in the installer...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/KeyboardBug

[ev (ev-f)]

samer here with linuxmint 16 cinnamon petra 64bit