Trouble with VNC - shift key not transmitted

I ran into this recently: after launching a VNC server on my work machine, I couldn't log in because it wasn't accepting the shift key. Essentially, no capital letters and half the punctuation was unavailable. This made it so I couldn't log on because my password is full of mixed case and punctuation.

Thanks to bramschoenmakers.nl for the fix. I'm only putting this here so I can find it again if needed!

http://www.bramschoenmakers.nl/en/node/714

invoke x11vnc with -xkb flag or add the line xkb to your ~/.x11vncrc