Comment 55 for bug 283128

Have this problem too (had it with intrepid and jaunty, now with karmic). My impression is that some regional keyboard layouts are not recognized as single ones. The applet then shows all keyboard-variants of a region/language. The questionmarks ("??" and "??2") disappear if you activate all variants (i. e. of the Latinamerican keyboard, which is the one I use next to the German, you have a normal variant, one without accents and one with tilde).
There must be an error which makes it difficult for the system to distinguish the variants and so it shows all of them... In my case, the bug would be in the "description" of the latinamerican layout, while the german is recognized correctly.