Why specifying keyboard layout?

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Published on 2012-10-10T16:25:52Z Indexed on 2012/10/11 9:41 UTC
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Most operating systems (if not all) asks about the keyboard layout during installation. Why do they need to know the layout? I mean, when pressing key, does the keyboard send a specific signal indicating what it represents (if so, why needing to specify the layout?) or it sends a signal indicating its position (the second raw, third key) and then the OS detects what key is that from the layout specified?

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