a character for an unknown character

[Richard Wordingham]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:44:00 +0100
Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> If IBus cannot hide the input (i.e. generate the entered characters
> to the application without displaying it, and let the output hints
> (bullets/asterisks) be generated only by the application, then iBus
> has a problem and may not be usable for compliant password inputs.

The problem is that I can't tell what characters are being entered!
I'm not even sure the problem is related to IBus - IBus-dependnent
keyboards are not offered when entering passwords.

Richard.