[Bug 1758647] Re: ubiquity doesn't preselect the right default keyboard layout

[Łukasz Zemczak]

I was just saying that if the decision was made to keep xkb-keymap then
there had to be a decision to start using it implicitly in ubiquity. And
by 'using' I didn't just mean the literal sense of us using the value
explicitly, but acting accordingly to what consequences it brings - as
it requires us to do one of the two as you mentioned in your post. So I
don't think there's much of a misunderstanding here. It's all good and I
guess for the next merge we should proceed with adjusting things so that
ubiquity is happy with the changes.

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Title:
  ubiquity doesn't preselect the right default keyboard layout

Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in console-setup source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-settings-daemon source package in Bionic:
  Invalid
Status in ubiquity source package in Bionic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, daily builds of
  March 25, the right default keymap isn't preselected when you select
  "Nederlands" (i.e. Dutch) as language for the installation.

  It's now "English, US" but should be:
  "English (US) - English (US, intl., with dead keys)".

  Or, in other words, it should be:
  XKBLAYOUT="us"
  XKBVARIANT="intl"

  (additional remark in order to prevent any misunderstandings: the
  original Dutch keyboard (nl) has completely disappeared long ago, so
  all keyboards sold in the Netherlands have US keyboards which need the
  "intl" xkbvariant with dead keys, in order to be able to type accents)

  This is a regression, at least compared with Ubuntu 16.04 and earlier
  (I don't know about 16.10, 17.04 and 17.10).

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