[Bug 1942774] Re: No fallback English layout on "Who are you?" screen during installation. Ubiquity won't accept non-Latin characters

[Sebastien Bacher]

Closing that ubuntu-desktop-installer report since the component is
deprecated. We aren't going to fix 23.10 installer bugs at this point
and Noble uses ubuntu-desktop-provision, feel free to reopen/reassign to
that component if that's still an issue with the noble beta image

** Changed in: ubuntu-desktop-installer
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  No fallback English layout on "Who are you?" screen during
  installation. Ubiquity won't accept non-Latin characters

Status in subiquity:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-desktop-installer:
  Won't Fix
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Impish Indri daily

  I cannot reproduce this bug anymore. Layout is hard-set to English,
  which solves this issue but creates another issue discussed in bug
  #1945848. Still, I'll leave the steps required to reproduce below:

  Steps to reproduce:
  1) Choose any language with a character set outside of ISO 8859-1. In my case, Russian
  2) Proceed with installation. Arrive at "Who are you?" screen
  3) Type in your name in Russian layout
      - The "Your username" field is not filled automatically
  5) Try typing a username you wish to use
      - It cannot recognize the characters and won't let you continue.
      - It will thus complain that usernames should begin with lowercase letters

  No matter if the letters are lower or upper case, it simply cannot
  recognize them.

  User is forced to manually add English or a similar layout that has
  Latin characters.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
  Package: ubiquity 21.10.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-14.14-generic 5.13.1
  Uname: Linux 5.13.0-14-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu68
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.465
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Mon Sep  6 17:37:52 2021
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Alpha amd64 (20210905)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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