Package: console-setup
Severity: minor

Turning this into a bugreport, so it does not get lost.
Thanks!

Holger


"hispeedhsx" <hisp...@hs-x.ch> wrote (Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:31:43 +0000):
> Hi Debian boot team,
> 
> 
> 
> I'm new to Debian and I switch from centos but I have seen this problem for 
> now several years and in several distributions even I think freebsd has it 
> wrong (in my opinion).
> 
> So I'm from Switzerland and I use a "Swiss Keyboard". We have people who are 
> talk and write in french and italian. There are also several people writing 
> rumantsch which is a little bit special.
> 
> When I see the keyboards layouts in the installer from 
> debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst I see there that Debian has a "Schweizerisches 
> Französisch / Swiss French" and a "Schweizerdeutsch / Swiss German" keyboard 
> layout.
> 
> There is one problem with this: In Switzerland we only have 1 hardware 
> keyboard layout. Italian, German and French speaking people use this layout.
> 
> 
> 
> In short there is only one keyboard and this has to be called: Swiss = Schweiz
> 
> 
> 
> If a Swiss person is only writing in french and they don't write often german 
> so they will use the AZERTY keyboard which is the same as the French people 
> are using for example.
> 
> 
> 
> I will thank you for your responses and inputs. In my opinion this is a bug 
> and should be fixed even it just for the small Switzerland.
> 
> I have subscribed today for the mailing list and I hope everything worked 
> fine.
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Walter


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