Chinese character in password fields
Hello,
On my RDM I have enabled the use of the computer credentials to unlock RDM interface. I also have to unlock my private key in the SSH user agent with my passphrase.
My issue here is that every time I start to input my password, my keyboard stay in Chinese mode and doesn't automatically switch back to English mode, leading to a lot of wrong password error alert 😅.
So, I wanted to ask you if the current behavior is a bug or if it was intended to allow Chinese password ? Because usually, when I am prompted to input a password, for example on a website, my keyboard automatically switch back to English, and I can't go back to Chinese.
Have a nice day,
Clement.
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Hello Clement,
Thank you for reaching out to us regarding this,
I have a few questions which you can hopefully answer.
1- Which version of RDM are you using?
2- Which type of data source are you using?
That being said, from my understanding, this would be the expected behavior when typing RDM will use the keyboard configuration that is currently used, in this case, you would need to change your keyboard type before typing.
Personally, I like to use "Windows" + "Space" to perform this change hopefully this is helpful.
Best regards,
Samuel Dery
Hello Samuel,
1- 2023.2.14.0 64-bit
2- SQLite
That being said, from my understanding, this would be the expected behavior when typing RDM will use the keyboard configuration that is currently used, in this case, you would need to change your keyboard type before typing.
Personally, I like to use "Windows" + "Space" to perform this change hopefully this is helpful.
When you are using a Chinese keyboard (or Japanese/Korean etc) on Windows (or Linux), the keyboard come with an English mode. This mean that I don't need to add an additional English keyboard if I want to write in Latin character. To switch mode, I just need to press "Shift" and the keyboard will switch between English/Chinese.
As you can see in the following pictures, my system is set to use "Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) Microsoft Bopomofo". But if you pay attention to the area in red, you can see that there is two modes, when the keyboard mode is "中(Zhong)", it means that I am typing in Chinese, and when the mode is "英(Ying)", I am writing in English(QWERTY).
Usually, when I start to input my password in a password field on a website or a desktop app, the Chinese mode is automatically disabled by the system and the keyboard switch back to English.
I hope my explanation is ok 😅
Have a nice day,
Clement.