On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 13:37 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Yes. There's a couple more letter swaps (Q<->A, Y->Z->W->Y, M in a different > > place, so they'd have to type '?'), and the numbers are shifted in the French > > layout and not in the US one. Still, it's possible to remember the > > differences. > > PS: Oh, and what about something having Anaconda enforce something like: > "Due to keyboard layout differences, non-alphanumeric characters and the > letters A, M, Q, W, Y and Z are not allowed in HD passwords." > Wouldn't that solve most of these issues? No. Huge amounts of the world don't even use a latin character set. Wikipedia has a good article showing the layout of keyboards for many different locales -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout Fedora is a distribution that's used worldwide; integrating a significant feature and locking out huge chunks of our user base just isn't a good option. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
