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<p>There might be something to this. Some semi-standardized set of
keyboard layouts and input methods that can be immediately and
temporarily activated in nearly any state of the computer, by a
well-known keystroke or menu or whatever, so you need to know how
to type your password in *one* of them and how to select it, and
then you can just click it out on an emulated keyboard onscreen
(or better, have the keyboard actually remap itself.)</p>
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<p>Kind of tricky to get the details right and decide on what and
how and all; the market and vendors will probably have to converge
(slowly) on some consensus. No, Unicode can't dictate this as a
standard, it's out of scope for Unicode, and pretty much every
other standards organization too: there is no standard dictating
user interface. Just some popular conventions that have become
fairly universal.</p>
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<p>~mark<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/14/22 08:31, William_J_G
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<style>p{margin:0}</style><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter Constable wrote:</span>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">And Windows has had this type of authentication UI since Windows 8: it’s called “picture password”.</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">Until I read that sentence I had never known of "picture password".</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As far as I can tell the nearest presently existing Microsoft facility on my laptop computer that is running W</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">indows 10 to what I am suggesting is the on-screen keyboard facility.</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The facility that I am suggesting would work in a similar way to the Microsoft on-screen keyboard in that the response to a click on a glyph would output a Unicode character. The difference being that each of the characters available would be an emoji character, thus a script-independent and language independent character.</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe a copy of the source code of the Microsoft on-screen keyboard could be adapted to produce what I am suggesting, just changing the layout and changing the set of characters that can be keyed.</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As I cannot do that myself I am not going to speculate upon how difficult that would be to do by a person expert in that type of programming.</span></p>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Thursday 14 April 2022</span></p>
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