The (CD) installer gives the wrong keyboard layout for the Dutch locale

[jeroenl]

Feisty RC CD image:

Hello,

When you choose as language Dutch while installing Ubuntu/Kibuntu it defaults to the Dutch keyboard layout. This seems correct, but it isn't. Almost everyone is using a qwerty keyboard, with the US International (with dead keys) keyboard layout. Actually, there is a Dutch keyboard layout, but it is hardly used. That's why in MSWindows the keyboard layout also defaults to US Int. . Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/etc should also do that. So Dutch users will not have to change the layout afterwards.

Note: I am talking about Dutch users in the Netherlands. I don't know about Belgium or Suriname users.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'd appreciate comments from other Dutch users confirming this - I have no relevant experience myself.

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

Can another Dutch user please confirm this bug report!?

[jdo (jdo-deactivatedaccount)]

This is the same as Bug #129982.
I just installed the new 7.10, and during booting I selected the dutch language ("Nederlands") with the desktop LiveCD. But then it defaults to the dutch keyboard layout.

Since everyone in the Netherlands uses an U.S.-keyboard layout, only selecting between a normal U.S.-keyboard or the international version (with dead-keys) would appropriate.

A dutch keyboard layout existed may be 20 years ago on a few keyboards.

[Bart van Deenen (bart-vandeenen)]

Confirm

I can confirm this. Dutch keyboard layouts are from the typewriter era. I have never seen one since pc's arrived on the scene a couple of decades ago. I think they were used on some mainframes or so, but not on pc's.

Bart (Dutch guy)

[Pjotr12345 (computertip)]

I can also confirm this bug.

To put it more concisely: the default choice for Dutch users should be "US International" with variant "International (with dead keys)". This variant is important, because in Dutch there are words that contain letters with accents.

Fixing this would mean a welcome lessening of questions on the Dutch Ubuntu forum.

Greetz, Pjotr.