Description of problem: On an installation of Fedora Core 6 with Japanese selected as the installation locale, Japanese 106-key keyboard, and no other locales installed, the keyboard layout of the Gnome login screen is apparently US English. Passwords requiring non-alphabetic characters cannot be typed correctly. Keys produce characters apparently mapping to US English keymap. After login, keyboard reverts to the correct Japanese 106-key layout. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Found on Fedora Core 6, kernel versions 2.6.18, 19, and 20. No other versions have been tested so do not know if the bug is limited to these releases. How reproducible: Install Fedora Core 6 on a Japanese PC in Japanese. Attempt to login through default GUI login screen. Not known if this also occurs for the text login screen as all tested systems boot directly to GUI login. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora Core 6 using Japanese locale and Japanese keyboard. Do not install additional locales. 2. Type non-alphabetic characters in the "username" window of the graphical login screen 3. Typed characters will not match Japanese keymap; rather, they appear to match US English keymap. Actual/Expected results: Typing "-^\@[;:],./" results in "-=X[];'\,./" where "X" is a dead key. Additional info: Typing the shifted version of the top row number keys should be: "!"#$%&'()X" where X is a dead key Actual result: "!@#$%^&*()"
I say "Appear to match" because I have no US English keyboard to compare with, but have used US keyboard in the past and the layout seems similar to my memory.
Try to switch to text mode (e.g. ctrl+alt+f2) and try to log. Does match the keymap here?
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