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Motivation¶

The backend process dies after passing russian language characters to the 'type_string' function, see #133319

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: os-autoinst provides explicit feedback about language support, either proper unicode support
• AC2: #133319 is resolved

Suggestions¶

• Read how https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/tree/master/consoles/VNC.pm currently works
• Read qemu docs about emulated keyboards because that is what is important for what we need to pass to the test systems
• Of course don't add support for individual characters. Try to provide a generic support (or "more generic"). If not possible then at least provide a clear error message what encodings or what keyboard keys are supported
• If no better solution is found fall back to plain old try/catch and "unknown letter" error message
• Check pending PRs for extending support for other keyboard layouts