[Bug 2018943] Re: Struggles with installation when choosing a non-Latin keyboard layout

[Omer I.S.]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1942774 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1942774

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1942774
   No fallback English layout on "Who are you?" screen during installation. Ubiquity won't accept non-Latin characters

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Title:
  Struggles with installation when choosing a non-Latin keyboard layout

Status in ubuntu-desktop-provision:
  Confirmed
Status in subiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Using the new ubuntu installer and picking up a non-Latin keyboard is not possible to finish the installation. The following names are not recognised unless a Latin keyboard layout is used:
  -computer
  -user.

  Edit (adding more info):
  The new installation process of Ubuntu is not new under Mantic Minotaur. It had already started from Lunar Lobster where it had some (serious) issues that in the process were getting better and better. Now that a new version is under way, I fired it up and noticed the following:
  1) The installation doesn't hung and the display of the first image of the installation process has improved a lot, time-wise
  2) It's still slow overall though, without showing any progress
  3) There's no meaning of choosing a non-Latin keyboard layout, since installation cannot be completed this way.

  The last one is directly related to this bug report: during
  installation one has the option to choose keyboard layout. I can do so
  by typing just a couple of characters and my Greek keyboard layout is
  readily recognised. I followed the installation process with the
  available options until the credentials of the new installation are
  required. Typing any name (such as my name), using any keyboard layout
  (either Greek or English) at the beginning of the installation, works
  fine. The problem arises when the installer asks for computer name
  user-name: it doesn't support non-Latin characters.

  In old Ubuntu versions (e.g. 10.10), the user had the ability to
  switch between keyboard layouts by pressing Alt+Shift during the
  installation process. This isn't the case right now. I've even tried
  Super+space to no avail.

  Another edit (not by the original submitter): Grammar fixes, capital
  letters, and an attempt to make this bug report clearer, as this bug
  is really significant and has to be fixed.

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