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stevagetoday at 10:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

Probably the better solution is to include some kind of special lock-screen keyboard that provides some fallback mechanism to input any character. Presumably there are similar edge cases where someone creates a password using one keyboard, then switches keyboard layout, and now can't re-enter it using the active layout...


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setopttoday at 12:05 PM

Indeed. For example, most desktop operating systems have a keybinding for «search for any Unicode symbol by name and input it». That would make sense to have as a fallback button on a virtual keyboard too.

The iOS emoji selector is close in UI/UX already, but the search is restricted to the emoji range of Unicode.

saagarjhatoday at 3:05 PM

Wonder if you can get it to enter effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗