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Description of problem: When typing special characters like German umlauts ä,ö,ü or the consonant ß, systemd prints two asterisks ("star" symbol, `*`) instead of one. I guess it will be printing 3 or 4 asterisks for some chinese/japanese characters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-222-13.fc23.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start `systemd-ask-password foo` on any tty 2. type any password with special characters 3. watch number of asterisks printed Actual results: some key presses result in multiple asterisks printed Expected results: just one asterisk should be printed
Yeah, a straightforward unicode handling issue.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2446
systemd-222-14.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d3fc0f9415
systemd-222-14.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d3fc0f9415
Typing special characters is fixed now. Typing dead keys before another key will still add 2 asterisks. This might be Ok, I am not sure. But there remains one issue: 1. type something with dead keys, e.g. èáû 2. press the delete key until you can't delete anything anymore What happens: Not only the asterisks are deleted, but also part of the prompt.
systemd-222-14.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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I cannot reproduce this issue on Fedora 29 any more.