Comment 19 for bug 428575

Good news, i just found out that the first (number 1) of the keyboard layouts represents the default one, so you can safely set this as the default in Ubuntu. How ever this still don't tell us the currently active layout, which I think would be even better to use.

Some words about this from MS: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978687.aspx

This info should be valid for all NT versions of windows, but might be a little different on the dos based 9x/me, from what i have found instead of being string the layouts are sub keys, as I don't have a running 9x machine I can not currently verify this, but I will see if I can dig one up some time later today.