[Bug 560090] Re: ‘Detect keyboard layout’ option not working 100% correctly

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  ‘Detect keyboard layout’ option not working 100% correctly

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  It’s no serious bug but still a bit annoying – the ‘detect keyboard
  layout’ option in ubiquity present on the Live CD of Ubuntu 10.04 beta
  2 doesn’t work 100% correctly: I’ve got a Swiss-French keyboard layout
  (please see [1] for the difference between Swiss-German and Swiss-
  French keyboard layouts). The suggested keyboard layout in ubiquity
  (step 3 of 7) is ‘France - Autre’. Because this is not the right
  layout, I’ve chosen ‘Détecter la disposition du clavier’ (detect
  keyboard layout). There I’ve typed following keys:

  u, w, z (on an US keyboard: u, w, y)

  Then I was asked if the letter ‘ö’ is present on my keyboard. I
  pressed ‘oui’ (yes) because it is. Now I had to type this letter which
  I can reach with [⇧] + [é] ([shift] + [é], on US keyboard [⇧] + [:] I
  think). Finally I was asked if the letter ‘é’ is present on my
  keyboard. It is, so I pressed ‘oui’ again. The programme now showed me
  that it has chosen the ‘Suisse’ (Swiss) keyboard layout. As I remarked
  while testing the keyboard in the box below, the detected layout is
  the Swiss-German layout and not the Swiss-French keyboard! So I had to
  correct this mistake manually.

  In addition it is a bit strange that ‘Suisse’ refers to the Swiss-
  German layout while the Swiss-French layout is called ‘Suisse -
  Français’ (Swiss-French). It would be more obvious if the option
  ‘Suisse’ (Swiss) would be called ‘Suisse - German’ (Swiss-German).

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  1.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Switzerland_.28German.2C_French.2C_Italian.29.2C_Liechtenstein.2C_Luxembourg

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