Comment 1 for bug 179457

This also is a problem for the installer(s).

It is actually a quite serious 'bug'. When a less experience user installs ubuntu, he selects his language which switches all the UI components to Dutch. Great, next screen is then the keyboard, which you just hit a few keys (qwerty works just fine btw) and continue, only to find out later that symbols etc do not work.

The original poster is entirely correct, we do not have dutch keyboards. We use US english keyboards. Normal standard american keyboards. with the Euro symbol printed on the 5 (sometimes on the odd keyboard on the 'e').

So what needed to be added in the keyboard selection box, and be set to default, is a US english layout, and an international US english keyboard. It should be called Dutch (new) maybe or Dutch (US english) or the like, so people wouldn't get too confused (about a US english layout in the dutch selection field). A lot of people prefer the US english (international) over the regular one, as we do use double dotted vouls, accent ecute/grave etc. Oh and the Euro symbol via alt (alt-gr) 5 nowadays alot.

This bug has been around since 6.10 i belive, and since I still notice it in 8.04 i thought it was time to report it.