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misc/59591: Latin american layout "la" is incorrectly mapped to Lao in Xorg



>Number:         59591
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Latin american layout "la" is incorrectly mapped to Lao in Xorg
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 12 17:40:00 +0000 2025
>Originator:     Jon Chon
>Release:        10.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD 10.1 x86_64
>Description:
In wskbd (wscons), the Latin American keyboard layout is identified as "la".

When Xorg auto-configures the keyboard, it sees la and sets the layout to Lao (since "la" is the ISO 639-1 code for Lao in XKB).

The correct XKB layout for Latin American Spanish is "latam".

Result:

Users cannot type their username/password correctly in XDM (or other login managers) because the keyboard outputs Lao characters instead of Latin American.

Manual intervention (e.g., switching to a TTY or pre-configuring Xorg) is required to fix the layout.
>How-To-Repeat:
Select latin american layout during installation. Do the full install. Try to log in.
>Fix:



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