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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:04:11 +0200
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To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
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Hi Florian,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> After selecting non-Latin keyboard layouts in the graphical installer,
> there is no way to input Latin characters again.  This means hostname,
> username, password, the home directory path /home/=E2=80=A6 cannot be
> specified in Latin.
>
> There either should be a way to switch the keyboard layout later on.
> For example currently there is neither a place in the GUI to switch
> the layout nor key combinations or (on a Japanese keyboard) support
> for the keyboard=E2=80=99s romaji key to switch layouts.  Of course typing
> `loadkeys` is impossible too.
>
> Or the keyboard layout should not be switched to non-Latin.  For
> example, when choosing Arabic AZERTY layout, during install the
> keyboard should be switched to Latin AZERTY layout and not Arabic.

How do other distros handle it?  Is there a hot key to switch back to a
Latin layout?  If so, which one?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.