Comment 47 for bug 118745

Exactly
The issue is that the auto detection currently fails miserably.
The issue has nothing to do with the xll config file, and everything with GDM
I have disabled GDM and ran startxfce4 (xubuntu) and the fonts were fine.

davmor2, did you read my post in its entirety? no-one complains that the keyboard detection algorithm is worthless, because they see that it does not work and is going to select the wrong keyboard layout, and gives the user the option to correct this before completing the install.
Thus, as I have suggested, we need to display some kind of splash screen to display the results of the choice. Or, we can use the proven method used in feisty