Public bug reported:

The pin code are usually digits only but the specification allows
alphanumeric chars and some device use letters

The current design shows an osk in pin/number mode with an key to switch to 
"letters"
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bluetooth?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=phone-bluetooth-pair.png

That's not something ubuntu-keyboard currently supports though (see bug
#1430264), so we currently display a standard full keyboard (e.g qwerty
type).

That's suboptimal since in the vast majority of cases the pin code is
made of numbers. We could maybe workaround a bit that in the Ui,
defaulting to a pin-mode osk and having a checkbox in the UI to switch
to a full keyboard?

** Affects: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
         Status: New

** Summary changed:

- [bluetooth] lack of osk support doesn't make the current pin pairing 
implementable
+ [bluetooth] lack of osk support makes the current pin pairing design not 
implementable

** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

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Title:
  [bluetooth] lack of osk support makes the current pin pairing design
  not implementable

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