Should default keyboard be based on location?

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 07:33:39PM -0400, Yannick Gingras wrote:
> Blaise Alleyne <balleyne at crucible.net> writes:
> > Hmmm, well, I'm Canadian, but I have and have always had a US English
> > keyboard. I think in this specific case, the "Canadian" layout may
> > only be relevant for Quebec (i.e. English/French keyboards). I may be
> > wrong, but I've never used anything but a US English keyboard in
> > Toronto.
> 
> That is indeed a more of a problem in Québec since it's impossible to
> type French with the US layout.

I'm curious; won't the majority of people needing this (particularly
those whose names require it) select French as their installation
language? I appreciate that you didn't, but it does seem like a good
heuristic.

And, after all, it's only a default.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]