Special key handling
●Chinese, Slovakian, Canadian French and Czech
When a user selects one of the preceding keyboard layouts and then enters a password (for example, abcdef), the same password must be entered while pressing the shift key for lower case and the shift key and caps lock key for upper case in BIOS Preboot Security and HP Drive Encryption. Numeric passwords must be entered using the numeric keypad.
●Korean
When a user selects a supported Korean keyboard layout and then enters a password, the same password must be entered while pressing the right alt key for lower case and the right alt key and caps lock key for upper case in BIOS Preboot Security and HP Drive Encryption.
●Unsupported characters are listed in the following table:
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Arabic | The ﻹ ,ﻵ, and ﻻ keys | The ﻹ ,ﻵ, and ﻻ keys | The ﻹ ,ﻵ, and ﻻ keys | |
| generate two characters. | generate one character. | generate one character. | |
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Canadian French | ç, è, à, and é with caps lock | ç, è, à, and é with caps lock | ç, è, à, and é with caps lock | |
| are Ç, È, À, and É in | are ç, è, à, and é in the | are ç, è, à, and é in HP | |
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Spanish | 40a is not supported. It | n/a | n/a | |
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| change their Windows |
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| keyboard layout to 1040a |
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| (Spanish Variation) or 080a |
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US international | ◦ | The ¡, ¤, ‘, ’, ¥, and × | n/a | n/a |
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| ◦ | The å, ®, and Þ keys |
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| rejected. |
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| ◦ | The á, ð, and ø keys |
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| ◦ | The æ key on the |
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| bottom row is rejected. |
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104 Chapter 11 Localized password exceptions