Bug#577174: debian-installer: There is no obvious way to choose "basic" variant of de keyboard layout system-wide

[Karsten Loeft <karstenloeft@yahoo.de>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

When installing debian squeeze with localization for German/Germany, the
"nodeadkeys" variant of the German ("de") keyboard layout is being installed
system-wide. This is not the standard variant for Germany. The standard variant
("basic") for Germany has dead keys (`,´,^).  The average desktop user expects
the standard variant ("basic") with dead keys, which is what Microsoft Windows
and Ubuntu have, too. The German language contains many French loan words, for
which these dead keys are needed. Programmers often prefer the "nodeadkeys"
variant, but the average desktop user wants the "basic" variant. While it is
possible for a user to configure the GNOME desktop to use his own variant,
there is no easy and obvious way to choose it as the system-wide default for
all users.  Either the "basic" variant should be installed by default, or
during installation there should be a dialog prompting for the exact keyboard
layout variant.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash