Reset language/keyboard settings when running

[Christian Behrens]

As we have many machines that are running in other languages, it would be very advantageous if the keyboard and language settings could be removed from NVRAM by MDS. Otherwise, it will keep those and apply them for a new user that’s being created, and when a different keyboard layout is set that you’re not familiar with (e.g. Czech or even French), it will be impossible to login, even when the password is known.

[Christian Behrens]

Investigating whether I can just use (parts of) the script found below to set newly created accounts to the language/keyboard:

https://bitbucket.org/twocanoes/macdeploystick/src/master/SampleScriptsAndResources/language_setup.sh

[Christian Behrens]

Actually, I found that because my test machine is currently running with a German keyboard setting, the command programmed into the Arduino didn’t work, as the slashes were translated as hyphens, and as such my image was never run from the server (http--). So I guess it’s really necessary to always start up with an EN keyboard settings, if that is at all possible…

[Christian Behrens]

Resolved by setting default global options.

[Christian Behrens]

These are the settings I added to the 00_create_default_environment.sh script that makes sure my user is created with en_US language settings:

# set language settings to en_US

defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLanguages -array en
defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLocale en_US