Less cryptic choose console keyboard layout

At very first bootup, a list of console keyboard layouts is displayed in the initrd, and the user is asked to choose one. However, they are very cryptic, so I have replaced with more meaningful country names.

The code is in /inc/00functions in the initrd. I have left in the previous display, commented out:

 KEYMAP=us
 #now ask for KEYMAP... 20260421 less cryptic...
 #echo -e '\e[1;;45m 1 azerty 2 be-latin1  3 br-abnt2  4 br-abnt   5 br-latin1-abnt2 6 br-latin1-us
 #7 by     8 cf         9 croat      10 cz        11 de            12 de-latin1 
 #13 dk    14 dvorak    15 dvorak-l  16 dvorak-r  17 es            18 et        
 #19 fi    20 fr        21 gb        22 gr        23 hu101         24 hu        
 #25 il    26 it        27 jp106     28 la-latin1 29 lt            30 mk        
 #31 nl    32 no        33 pl        34 pt-latin1 35 ro            36 ru        
 #37 se    38 sg        39 sk-qwerty 40 sk-qwertz 41 slovene       42 srp       
 #43 sv-latin1  44 tr   45 us        46 wangbe                                  \e[0;;m'
 echo -e '\e[1;;45m 1 Azerty         2 Belgian-latin1           3 Brazilian-abnt2     
 4 Brazilian-abnt 5 Brazilian-latin1-abnt2   6 Brazilian-latin1-us 
 7 Belarus        8 Central African Republic 9 Croatian            
 10 Czechia       11 Deutsch                 12 Deutsch-latin1     
 13 Denmark       14 Dvorak                  15 Dvorak-l           
 16 Dvorak-r      17 Español                 18 Eesti-keel         
 19 Suomalainen   20 Français                21 Great Britain      
 22 Ελλάδα        23 Mađarski-101            24 Mađarski           
 25 Israel        26 Italiano                27 Japanese-106       
 28 Latin-American-latin1 29 Lietuvių        30 македонски         
 31 Nederlands            32 Norsk           33 Polski             
 34 Português-latin1      35 Română          36 Русский            
 37 Sverige               38 Singapore       39 Slovenský-qwerty   
 40 Slovenský-qwertz      41 Slovene         42 srp                
 43 Svenska-latin1  44 Türkçe   45 USA       46 Wangbe             \e[0;;m'
 
 echo -n -e '\033[1;;44m'
 while read aLINE
 do
  echo -n '                                                                       '
  echo -n -e '\033[1G' #move cursor back to col 1.
  echo " ${aLINE}"
 done << EOT
$(echo " ${S015:-Please enter the number corresponding to your keyboard layout.}")
$(echo "${S016:-Choose the closest match, there will be an opportunity to fine-tune the layout after the desktop has loaded. Press ENTER only for US.}" | fold -s -w 70)
EOT

This cryptic display was criticised in the last review of EasyOS in Distrowatch. I could make it into a bit more GUI-like with the 'dialog' utility; maybe in the future.    

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