I once led the EMEA part of a global plan for a US corporation, I had a very difficult time with the US "leaders" who could not understand why we used over 20 different keyboard layouts and why we didn't use the standard US layout.

here's a flavour of the challenge. http://kbd-intl.narod.ru/english/layouts

I once led the EMEA part of a global plan for a US corporation, I had a very difficult time with the US "leaders" who could not understand why we used over 20 different keyboard layouts and why we didn't use the standard US layout.