Someone was talking about adding special characters to Fn+[cursor key] combinations on the English keyboard at the Summit. This way, at least for the German language, we could cover the umlauts and the eszett. Of course, one can write "ae", "ue", "oe" instead of the umlauts and "ss" or "sz" for the eszett, so it's really a non-issue for me right now. I would not want to have the localized version of the keyboard, however, because I'm using the English keyboard layout on my PC - it makes programming so much easier