(ignoring your rant which there is no point to answer to. Thanks for the confirmation to my questions)
Quoting myself: > Today, I finally could....but couldn't reproduce it. I booted the > daily built *netboot* image, then did choose French as install > language and French keymap. > > Apart from a weird prompting during the base system install (the > system re-prompts for the keymap but properly defaulted to "France"), > I easily completed the install...and the installed system had a > working french keymap. Same successful install with working keymap with a daily built netboot and German keymap, using German as install language. Next step: trying with a netinst image (some differences might explain different behaviours).
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