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Bug #428575
Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 428575

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Carolus (h-c-croon) wrote on 2009-10-30: Re: [Bug 428575] Re: password not accepted/wrong keyboard

#21

Dear Agostino,

I think the followig remarks are important with respect to this bug:

- the bug does NOT depend on the country configuration but on the configuration of the
KEYBOARD TYPE. In the old ages of typewriters there exist Dutch keyboards. In the early
days of the PC IBM defined a Dutch keyboard too. But AFAIK for computers Dutch
keyboards are never selled. As a matter of fact computers in the Netherlands are selled with
keyboards of the type US INTERNATIONAL.

- there are 4 items which WIBU has to copy from Windows
1. the native Windows language. Most users in the Netherlands use the Dutch Windows
version, but a lot are using the English version.
2. The active language which has been chosen by the user for spell checking and keyboard
modification (p.e. diacrites which dead key usage). In fact each user can define more
language/keyboardtype combinations between which he can switch via an icon in the
systeem tray. One of these is the standard user language.
3. The residential country used for the actual timezone. An English speaking guy can live in
the Netherlands and always use English as his language, but must define his residential
country as the Netherlands.
4. the keyboard type. As said in the Netherlands this is normaly 'US International', but an
Italian guy in the Netherlands perhaps uses an Italian keyboard.

So the fix will be more complicated as changing the spelling of 'Netherlands' to 'Nederland'.

Greetings from

Harry Croon

> I see in the country mapping it is spelled "Netherlands", easy fix, I
> will update the stand-alone version on wubi-installer.org I cannot
> change the version on CD anymore
>
> --
> password not accepted/wrong keyboard
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428575
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Wubi, Windows Ubuntu Installer: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Wubi installed and username/password defined. After restart password was not accepted. Escaped to terminal mode as root and changed password. Now I could enter wubi. Then in wubi I saw the keyboard layout was set to Italian. I changed this to US, International. Then authorization with password failed.
> Cause of this trouble: I used a special character in my password, which was defined by the windows keyboard type: US International. After rebooting the keyboard layout was automatically changed to Italian and typing in my password resulted in an other special character and the password was not accepted. After redefining a new password the special character was that from the Italian keyboard. Then I changed the keyboard setting to USinternational and again the password was not accepted.
> So either copy the keyboard layout setting from windows or ask it the user.
>

Dear Agostino,

I think the followig remarks are important with respect to this bug:

- the bug does NOT depend on the country configuration but on the configuration of the 
KEYBOARD TYPE. In the old ages of typewriters there exist Dutch keyboards. In the early 
days of the PC IBM defined a Dutch keyboard too. But AFAIK for computers Dutch 
keyboards are never selled. As a matter of fact computers in the Netherlands are selled with 
keyboards of the type US INTERNATIONAL.

- there are 4 items which WIBU has to copy from Windows
1. the native Windows language. Most users in the Netherlands use the Dutch Windows 
version, but a lot are using the English version.
2. The active language which has been chosen by the user for spell checking and keyboard 
modification (p.e. diacrites which dead key usage). In fact each user can define more 
language/keyboardtype combinations between which he can switch via an icon in the 
systeem tray. One of these is the standard user language. 
3. The residential country used for the actual timezone. An English speaking guy can live in 
the Netherlands and always use English as his language, but must define his residential 
country as the Netherlands.
4. the keyboard type. As said in the Netherlands this is normaly 'US International', but an 
Italian guy in the Netherlands perhaps uses an Italian keyboard.

So the fix will be more complicated as changing the spelling of 'Netherlands' to 'Nederland'.

Greetings from

Harry Croon

> I see in the country mapping it is spelled "Netherlands", easy fix, I
> will update the stand-alone version on wubi-installer.org I cannot
> change the version on CD anymore
> 
> -- 
> password not accepted/wrong keyboard
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428575
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
> 
> Status in Wubi, Windows Ubuntu Installer: Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
> Wubi installed and username/password defined. After restart password was not accepted. Escaped to terminal mode as root and changed password. Now I could enter wubi. Then in wubi I saw the keyboard layout was set to Italian. I changed this to US, International. Then authorization with password failed.
> Cause of this trouble: I used a special character in my password, which was defined by the windows keyboard type: US International. After rebooting the keyboard layout was automatically changed to Italian and typing in my password resulted in an other special character and the password was not accepted. After redefining a new password the special character was that from the Italian keyboard. Then I changed the keyboard setting to USinternational and again the password was not accepted.
> So either copy the keyboard layout setting from windows or ask it the user.
>