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On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be will=
ing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreci=
ate the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY keyboard layout means Fr=
ench, that JIS means Japanese, that QWERTZ probably indicates German / Swis=
s / Hungarian, etc.

I thought I'd mention that OS X takes an interesting approach to this.
 When you plug in a keyboard it doesn't recognize, it does a little
dance where it tells you to press certain keys (e.g., "Press the key
to the right of the left Shift key," with a little graphic to help you
understand which key it means) and from the results it infers the
layout.