HP 2 Base Model manual Special key handling

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:

Language	Windows		BIOS	Drive Encryption
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.
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
	Windows.		BIOS Preboot Security.	Drive Encryption.
Spanish	40a is not supported. It		n/a	n/a
	nevertheless works
	because the software
	converts it to c0a. However,
	because of subtle
	differences between the
	keyboard layouts, it is
	recommended that
	Spanish-speaking users
	change their Windows
	keyboard layout to 1040a
	(Spanish Variation) or 080a
	(Latin American).
US international	◦	The ¡, ¤, ‘, ’, ¥, and ×	n/a	n/a
		keys on the top row
		are rejected.
	◦	The å, ®, and Þ keys
		on the second row are
		rejected.
	◦	The á, ð, and ø keys
		on the third row are
		rejected.
	◦	The æ key on the
		bottom row is rejected.

104 Chapter 11 Localized password exceptions