Language, Keyboard Layout and Region

[anverhousseini]

Hi JAMF Nation

I've seen a lot of threads, websites and blogs but nobody could give me a clear answer. I would like to set following:

• System Language
• User Language
• User Template Language
• User Keyboard Layout
• User Template Keyboard Layout
• User Region
• User Template Region

Amsys was almost there with this first boot script: https://github.com/amsysuk/public_scripts/blob/master/first_boot/10.10_firstBoot.sh

I created this script so far:

#!/bin/sh

# Set keyboard layout, region and language (globally, per user and in user template)
PLBUDDY=/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy
KEYBOARDNAME="Swiss German"
KEYBOARDLAYOUTID="19"
LANG="de"
REGION="de_DE"

update_kdb_layout() {
    ${PLBUDDY} -c "Delete :AppleCurrentKeyboardLayoutInputSourceID" "${1}" &>/dev/null
        if [ ${?} -eq 0 ]
            then
                ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :AppleCurrentKeyboardLayoutInputSourceID string com.apple.keylayout.${KEYBOARDNAME}" "${1}"
        fi

    for SOURCE in AppleDefaultAsciiInputSource AppleCurrentAsciiInputSource AppleCurrentInputSource AppleEnabledInputSources AppleSelectedInputSources
    do
        ${PLBUDDY} -c "Delete :${SOURCE}" "${1}" &>/dev/null
        if [ ${?} -eq 0 ]
            then
                ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :${SOURCE} array" "${1}"
                ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :${SOURCE}:0 dict" "${1}"
                ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :${SOURCE}:0:InputSourceKind string 'Keyboard Layout'" "${1}"
                ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :${SOURCE}:0:KeyboardLayout ID integer ${KEYBOARDLAYOUTID}" "${1}"
                ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :${SOURCE}:0:KeyboardLayout Name string '${KEYBOARDNAME}'" "${1}"
        fi
    done
}

update_language() {
    ${PLBUDDY} -c "Delete :AppleLanguages" "${1}" &>/dev/null
    if [ ${?} -eq 0 ]
        then
            ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :AppleLanguages array" "${1}"
            ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :AppleLanguages:0 string '${LANG}'" "${1}"
    fi
}

update_region() {
    ${PLBUDDY} -c "Delete :AppleLocale" "${1}" &>/dev/null
    ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :AppleLocale string ${REGION}" "${1}" &>/dev/null
    ${PLBUDDY} -c "Delete :Country" "${1}" &>/dev/null
    ${PLBUDDY} -c "Add :Country string ${REGION:3:2}" "${1}" &>/dev/null
}

update_kdb_layout "/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist" "${KEYBOARDNAME}" "${KEYBOARDLAYOUTID}"

for HOME in /Users/*
    do
        if [ -d "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]
            then
                cd "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences
                HITOOLBOX_FILES=`find . -name "com.apple.HIToolbox.*plist"`
                for HITOOLBOX_FILE in ${HITOOLBOX_FILES}
                do
                    update_kdb_layout "${HITOOLBOX_FILE}" "${KEYBOARDNAME}" "${KEYBOARDLAYOUTID}"
                done
        fi
done

for HOME in "/System/Library/User Template"/*
    do
        if [ -d "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]
            then
                cd "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences
                HITOOLBOX_FILES=`find . -name "com.apple.HIToolbox.*plist"`
                for HITOOLBOX_FILE in ${HITOOLBOX_FILES}
                do
                    update_kdb_layout "${HITOOLBOX_FILE}" "${KEYBOARDNAME}" "${KEYBOARDLAYOUTID}"
                done
        fi
    done

/usr/sbin/languagesetup -langspec "${LANG}"

for HOME in /Users/*
    do
        if [ -d "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]
            then
                cd "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences
                GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILES=`find . -name ".GlobalPreferences.*plist"`
                for GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILE in ${GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILES}
            do
                update_language "${GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILE}" "${LANG}"
            done
        fi
done

for HOME in "/System/Library/User Template"/*
    do
        if [ -d "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]
            then
                cd "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences
                GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILES=`find . -name ".GlobalPreferences.*plist"`
                for GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILE in ${GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILES}
                do
                    update_language "${GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILE}" "${LANG}"
                done
        fi
    done

update_region "/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist" "${REGION}"

for HOME in /Users/*
    do
        if [ -d "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]
            then
                cd "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences
                GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILES=`find . -name ".GlobalPreferences.*plist"`
                for GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILE in ${GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILES}
                do
                    update_region "${GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILE}" "${REGION}"
                done
        fi
    done

for HOME in "/System/Library/User Template"/*
    do
        if [ -d "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]
            then
                cd "${HOME}"/Library/Preferences
                GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILES=`find . -name ".GlobalPreferences.*plist"`
                for GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILE in ${GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILES}
                do
                    update_region "${GLOBALPREFERENCES_FILE}" "${REGION}"
                done
        fi
    done

exit 0

I tested this script multiple times. I changed everything (System Language, User Language, User Template Language, User Keyboard Layout, User Template Keyboard Layout, User Region, User Template Region) on a 10.11 vanilla machine. Then ran this script to check if everything is set back. But just following works:

• System Language
• User Language
• User Keyboard Layout

Does anybody have a solid script which could reset everything back to the desired localisation?

Thanks for your help!