All the permissible variants are listed in the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst in the section beginning '! variant' and ending at the section beginning '! option':
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! variant
chr us: Cherokee
haw us: Hawaiian
euro us: English (US, euro on 5)
intl us: English (US, intl., with dead keys)
alt-intl us: English (US, alt. intl.)
colemak us: English (Colemak)
dvorak us: English (Dvorak)
dvorak-intl us: English (Dvorak, intl., with dead keys)
dvorak-alt-intl us: English (Dvorak, alt. intl.)
dvorak-l us: English (Dvorak, left-handed)
dvorak-r us: English (Dvorak, right-handed)
dvorak-classic us: English (classic Dvorak)
dvp us: English (programmer Dvorak)
symbolic us: English (US, Symbolic)
rus us: Russian (US, phonetic)
mac us: English (Macintosh)
altgr-intl us: English (intl., with AltGr dead keys)
olpc2 us: English (the divide/multiply toggle the layout)
hbs us: Serbo-Croatian (US)
norman us: English (Norman)
workman us: English (Workman)
workman-intl us: English (Workman, intl., with dead keys)
ps af: Pashto
uz af: Uzbek (Afghanistan)
olpc-ps af: Pashto (Afghanistan, OLPC)
fa-olpc af: Persian (Afghanistan, Dari OLPC)
uz-olpc af: Uzbek (Afghanistan, OLPC)
azerty ara: Arabic (AZERTY)
azerty_digits ara: Arabic (AZERTY, Eastern Arabic numerals)
digits ara: Arabic (Eastern Arabic numerals)
qwerty ara: Arabic (QWERTY)
qwerty_digits ara: Arabic (QWERTY, Eastern Arabic numerals)
buckwalter ara: Arabic (Buckwalter)
olpc ara: Arabic (OLPC)
mac ara: Arabic (Macintosh)
plisi al: Albanian (Plisi)
veqilharxhi al: Albanian (Veqilharxhi)
phonetic am: Armenian (phonetic)
phonetic-alt am: Armenian (alt. phonetic)
eastern am: Armenian (eastern)
western am: Armenian (western)
eastern-alt am: Armenian (alt. eastern)
nodeadkeys at: German (Austria, no dead keys)
sundeadkeys at: German (Austria, Sun dead keys)
mac at: German (Austria, Macintosh)
cyrillic az: Azerbaijani (Cyrillic)
legacy by: Belarusian (legacy)
latin by: Belarusian (Latin)
ru by: Russian (Belarus)
intl by: Belarusian (intl.)
oss be: Belgian (alt.)
oss_latin9 be: Belgian (Latin-9 only, alt.)
oss_sundeadkeys be: Belgian (Sun dead keys, alt.)
iso-alternate be: Belgian (ISO, alt.)
nodeadkeys be: Belgian (no dead keys)
sundeadkeys be: Belgian (Sun dead keys)
wang be: Belgian (Wang 724 AZERTY)
probhat bd: Bangla (Probhat)
ben in: Bangla (India)
ben_probhat in: Bangla (India, Probhat)
ben_baishakhi in: Bangla (India, Baishakhi)
ben_bornona in: Bangla (India, Bornona)
ben_gitanjali in: Bangla (India, Gitanjali)
ben_inscript in: Bangla (India, Baishakhi Inscript)
eeyek in: Manipuri (Eeyek)
guj in: Gujarati
guru in: Punjabi (Gurmukhi)
jhelum in: Punjabi (Gurmukhi Jhelum)
kan in: Kannada
kan-kagapa in: Kannada (KaGaPa, phonetic)
mal in: Malayalam
mal_lalitha in: Malayalam (Lalitha)
mal_enhanced in: Malayalam (enhanced Inscript, with rupee)
ori in: Oriya
olck in: Ol Chiki
tam_tamilnet in: Tamil (TamilNet '99)
tam_tamilnet_with_tam_nums in: Tamil (TamilNet '99 with Tamil numerals)
tam_tamilnet_TAB in: Tamil (TamilNet '99, TAB encoding)
tam_tamilnet_TSCII in: Tamil (TamilNet '99, TSCII encoding)
tam in: Tamil (Inscript)
tel in: Telugu
tel-kagapa in: Telugu (KaGaPa, phonetic)
tel-sarala in: Telugu (Sarala)
urd-phonetic in: Urdu (phonetic)
urd-phonetic3 in: Urdu (alt. phonetic)
urd-winkeys in: Urdu (Windows)
bolnagri in: Hindi (Bolnagri)
hin-wx in: Hindi (Wx)
hin-kagapa in: Hindi (KaGaPa, phonetic)
san-kagapa in: Sanskrit (KaGaPa, phonetic)
mar-kagapa in: Marathi (KaGaPa, phonetic)
eng in: English (India, with rupee)
iipa in: Indic (phonetic, IPA)
marathi in: Marathi (enhanced Inscript)
alternatequotes ba: Bosnian (with guillemets)
unicode ba: Bosnian (with Bosnian digraphs)
unicodeus ba: Bosnian (US, with Bosnian digraphs)
us ba: Bosnian (US)
nodeadkeys br: Portuguese (Brazil, no dead keys)
dvorak br: Portuguese (Brazil, Dvorak)
nativo br: Portuguese (Brazil, Nativo)
nativo-us br: Portuguese (Brazil, Nativo for US keyboards)
nativo-epo br: Esperanto (Brazil, Nativo)
thinkpad br: Portuguese (Brazil, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad)
phonetic bg: Bulgarian (traditional phonetic)
bas_phonetic bg: Bulgarian (new phonetic)
bekl bg: Bulgarian (enhanced)
azerty-deadkeys dz: Kabylian (azerty layout, with dead keys)
qwerty-gb-deadkeys dz: Kabylian (qwerty-gb layout, with dead keys)
qwerty-us-deadkeys dz: Kabylian (qwerty-us layout, with dead keys)
ber dz: Kabylian (Algeria, Tifinagh)
ar dz: Arabic (Algeria)
french ma: French (Morocco)
tifinagh ma: Berber (Morocco, Tifinagh)
tifinagh-alt ma: Berber (Morocco, Tifinagh alt.)
tifinagh-alt-phonetic ma: Berber (Morocco, Tifinagh phonetic, alt.)
tifinagh-extended ma: Berber (Morocco, Tifinagh extended)
tifinagh-phonetic ma: Berber (Morocco, Tifinagh phonetic)
tifinagh-extended-phonetic ma: Berber (Morocco, Tifinagh extended phonetic)
french cm: French (Cameroon)
qwerty cm: Cameroon Multilingual (QWERTY, intl.)
azerty cm: Cameroon (AZERTY, intl.)
dvorak cm: Cameroon (Dvorak, intl.)
mmuock cm: Mmuock
zawgyi mm: Burmese Zawgyi
fr-dvorak ca: French (Canada, Dvorak)
fr-legacy ca: French (Canada, legacy)
multix ca: Canadian (intl.)
multi ca: Canadian (intl., 1st part)
multi-2gr ca: Canadian (intl., 2nd part)
ike ca: Inuktitut
eng ca: English (Canada)
mon_trad cn: Mongolian (Bichig)
mon_trad_todo cn: Mongolian (Todo)
mon_trad_xibe cn: Mongolian (Xibe)
mon_trad_manchu cn: Mongolian (Manchu)
mon_trad_galik cn: Mongolian (Galik)
mon_todo_galik cn: Mongolian (Todo Galik)
mon_manchu_galik cn: Mongolian (Manchu Galik)
tib cn: Tibetan
tib_asciinum cn: Tibetan (with ASCII numerals)
ug cn: Uyghur
altgr-pinyin cn: Hanyu Pinyin (with AltGr dead keys)
alternatequotes hr: Croatian (with guillemets)
unicode hr: Croatian (with Croatian digraphs)
unicodeus hr: Croatian (US, with Croatian digraphs)
us hr: Croatian (US)
bksl cz: Czech (with <\|> key)
qwerty cz: Czech (QWERTY)
qwerty_bksl cz: Czech (QWERTY, extended backslash)
qwerty-mac cz: Czech (QWERTY, Macintosh)
ucw cz: Czech (UCW, only accented letters)
dvorak-ucw cz: Czech (US, Dvorak, UCW support)
rus cz: Russian (Czech, phonetic)
nodeadkeys dk: Danish (no dead keys)
winkeys dk: Danish (Windows)
mac dk: Danish (Macintosh)
mac_nodeadkeys dk: Danish (Macintosh, no dead keys)
dvorak dk: Danish (Dvorak)
sundeadkeys nl: Dutch (Sun dead keys)
mac nl: Dutch (Macintosh)
std nl: Dutch (standard)
nodeadkeys ee: Estonian (no dead keys)
dvorak ee: Estonian (Dvorak)
us ee: Estonian (US)
pes_keypad ir: Persian (with Persian keypad)
ku ir: Kurdish (Iran, Latin Q)
ku_f ir: Kurdish (Iran, F)
ku_alt ir: Kurdish (Iran, Latin Alt-Q)
ku_ara ir: Kurdish (Iran, Arabic-Latin)
ku iq: Kurdish (Iraq, Latin Q)
ku_f iq: Kurdish (Iraq, F)
ku_alt iq: Kurdish (Iraq, Latin Alt-Q)
ku_ara iq: Kurdish (Iraq, Arabic-Latin)
nodeadkeys fo: Faroese (no dead keys)
winkeys fi: Finnish (Windows)
classic fi: Finnish (classic)
nodeadkeys fi: Finnish (classic, no dead keys)
smi fi: Northern Saami (Finland)
mac fi: Finnish (Macintosh)
nodeadkeys fr: French (no dead keys)
sundeadkeys fr: French (Sun dead keys)
oss fr: French (alt.)
oss_latin9 fr: French (alt., Latin-9 only)
oss_nodeadkeys fr: French (alt., no dead keys)
oss_sundeadkeys fr: French (alt., Sun dead keys)
latin9 fr: French (legacy, alt.)
latin9_nodeadkeys fr: French (legacy, alt., no dead keys)
latin9_sundeadkeys fr: French (legacy, alt., Sun dead keys)
bepo fr: French (BEPO)
bepo_latin9 fr: French (BEPO, Latin-9 only)
bepo_afnor fr: French (BEPO, AFNOR)
dvorak fr: French (Dvorak)
mac fr: French (Macintosh)
azerty fr: French (AZERTY)
afnor fr: French (AZERTY, AFNOR)
bre fr: French (Breton)
oci fr: Occitan
geo fr: Georgian (France, AZERTY Tskapo)
us fr: French (US)
generic gh: English (Ghana, multilingual)
akan gh: Akan
ewe gh: Ewe
fula gh: Fula
ga gh: Ga
hausa gh: Hausa (Ghana)
avn gh: Avatime
gillbt gh: English (Ghana, GILLBT)
ergonomic ge: Georgian (ergonomic)
mess ge: Georgian (MESS)
ru ge: Russian (Georgia)
os ge: Ossetian (Georgia)
deadacute de: German (dead acute)
deadgraveacute de: German (dead grave acute)
nodeadkeys de: German (no dead keys)
e1 de: German (E1)
e2 de: German (E2)
T3 de: German (T3)
us de: German (US)
ro de: Romanian (Germany)
ro_nodeadkeys de: Romanian (Germany, no dead keys)
dvorak de: German (Dvorak)
sundeadkeys de: German (Sun dead keys)
neo de: German (Neo 2)
mac de: German (Macintosh)
mac_nodeadkeys de: German (Macintosh, no dead keys)
dsb de: Lower Sorbian
dsb_qwertz de: Lower Sorbian (QWERTZ)
qwerty de: German (QWERTY)
tr de: Turkish (Germany)
ru de: Russian (Germany, phonetic)
deadtilde de: German (dead tilde)
simple gr: Greek (simple)
extended gr: Greek (extended)
nodeadkeys gr: Greek (no dead keys)
polytonic gr: Greek (polytonic)
standard hu: Hungarian (standard)
nodeadkeys hu: Hungarian (no dead keys)
qwerty hu: Hungarian (QWERTY)
101_qwertz_comma_dead hu: Hungarian (QWERTZ, 101-key, comma, dead keys)
101_qwertz_comma_nodead hu: Hungarian (QWERTZ, 101-key, comma, no dead keys)
101_qwertz_dot_dead hu: Hungarian (QWERTZ, 101-key, dot, dead keys)
101_qwertz_dot_nodead hu: Hungarian (QWERTZ, 101-key, dot, no dead keys)
101_qwerty_comma_dead hu: Hungarian (QWERTY, 101-key, comma, dead keys)
101_qwerty_comma_nodead hu: Hungarian (QWERTY, 101-key, comma, no dead keys)
101_qwerty_dot_dead hu: Hungarian (QWERTY, 101-key, dot, dead keys)
101_qwerty_dot_nodead hu: Hungarian (QWERTY, 101-key, dot, no dead keys)
102_qwertz_comma_dead hu: Hungarian (QWERTZ, 102-key, comma, dead keys)
102_qwertz_comma_nodead hu: Hungarian (QWERTZ, 102-key, comma, no dead keys)
102_qwertz_dot_dead hu: Hungarian (QWERTZ, 102-key, dot, dead keys)
102_qwertz_dot_nodead hu: Hungarian (QWERTZ, 102-key, dot, no dead keys)
102_qwerty_comma_dead hu: Hungarian (QWERTY, 102-key, comma, dead keys)
102_qwerty_comma_nodead hu: Hungarian (QWERTY, 102-key, comma, no dead keys)
102_qwerty_dot_dead hu: Hungarian (QWERTY, 102-key, dot, dead keys)
102_qwerty_dot_nodead hu: Hungarian (QWERTY, 102-key, dot, no dead keys)
Sundeadkeys is: Icelandic (Sun dead keys)
nodeadkeys is: Icelandic (no dead keys)
mac_legacy is: Icelandic (Macintosh, legacy)
mac is: Icelandic (Macintosh)
dvorak is: Icelandic (Dvorak)
lyx il: Hebrew (lyx)
phonetic il: Hebrew (phonetic)
biblical il: Hebrew (Biblical, Tiro)
nodeadkeys it: Italian (no dead keys)
winkeys it: Italian (Windows)
mac it: Italian (Macintosh)
us it: Italian (US)
geo it: Georgian (Italy)
ibm it: Italian (IBM 142)
intl it: Italian (intl., with dead keys)
scn it: Sicilian
fur it: Friulian (Italy)
kana jp: Japanese (Kana)
kana86 jp: Japanese (Kana 86)
OADG109A jp: Japanese (OADG 109A)
mac jp: Japanese (Macintosh)
dvorak jp: Japanese (Dvorak)
phonetic kg: Kyrgyz (phonetic)
ruskaz kz: Russian (Kazakhstan, with Kazakh)
kazrus kz: Kazakh (with Russian)
ext kz: Kazakh (extended)
latin kz: Kazakh (Latin)
stea la: Lao (STEA)
nodeadkeys latam: Spanish (Latin American, no dead keys)
deadtilde latam: Spanish (Latin American, dead tilde)
sundeadkeys latam: Spanish (Latin American, Sun dead keys)
dvorak latam: Spanish (Latin American, Dvorak)
colemak latam: Spanish (Latin American, Colemak)
colemak-gaming latam: Spanish (Latin American, Colemak for gaming)
std lt: Lithuanian (standard)
us lt: Lithuanian (US)
ibm lt: Lithuanian (IBM LST 1205-92)
lekp lt: Lithuanian (LEKP)
lekpa lt: Lithuanian (LEKPa)
sgs lt: Samogitian
apostrophe lv: Latvian (apostrophe)
tilde lv: Latvian (tilde)
fkey lv: Latvian (F)
modern lv: Latvian (modern)
ergonomic lv: Latvian (ergonomic, ŪGJRMV)
adapted lv: Latvian (adapted)
cyrillic me: Montenegrin (Cyrillic)
cyrillicyz me: Montenegrin (Cyrillic, ZE and ZHE swapped)
latinunicode me: Montenegrin (Latin, Unicode)
latinyz me: Montenegrin (Latin, QWERTY)
latinunicodeyz me: Montenegrin (Latin, Unicode, QWERTY)
cyrillicalternatequotes me: Montenegrin (Cyrillic, with guillemets)
latinalternatequotes me: Montenegrin (Latin, with guillemets)
nodeadkeys mk: Macedonian (no dead keys)
us mt: Maltese (US)
alt-us mt: Maltese (US layout with AltGr overrides)
alt-gb mt: Maltese (UK, with AltGr overrides)
nodeadkeys no: Norwegian (no dead keys)
winkeys no: Norwegian (Windows)
dvorak no: Norwegian (Dvorak)
smi no: Northern Saami (Norway)
smi_nodeadkeys no: Northern Saami (Norway, no dead keys)
mac no: Norwegian (Macintosh)
mac_nodeadkeys no: Norwegian (Macintosh, no dead keys)
colemak no: Norwegian (Colemak)
legacy pl: Polish (legacy)
qwertz pl: Polish (QWERTZ)
dvorak pl: Polish (Dvorak)
dvorak_quotes pl: Polish (Dvorak, with Polish quotes on quotemark key)
dvorak_altquotes pl: Polish (Dvorak, with Polish quotes on key 1)
csb pl: Kashubian
szl pl: Silesian
ru_phonetic_dvorak pl: Russian (Poland, phonetic Dvorak)
dvp pl: Polish (programmer Dvorak)
nodeadkeys pt: Portuguese (no dead keys)
sundeadkeys pt: Portuguese (Sun dead keys)
mac pt: Portuguese (Macintosh)
mac_nodeadkeys pt: Portuguese (Macintosh, no dead keys)
mac_sundeadkeys pt: Portuguese (Macintosh, Sun dead keys)
nativo pt: Portuguese (Nativo)
nativo-us pt: Portuguese (Nativo for US keyboards)
nativo-epo pt: Esperanto (Portugal, Nativo)
cedilla ro: Romanian (cedilla)
std ro: Romanian (standard)
std_cedilla ro: Romanian (standard cedilla)
winkeys ro: Romanian (Windows)
phonetic ru: Russian (phonetic)
phonetic_winkeys ru: Russian (phonetic, Windows)
phonetic_YAZHERTY ru: Russian (phonetic, YAZHERTY)
typewriter ru: Russian (typewriter)
legacy ru: Russian (legacy)
typewriter-legacy ru: Russian (typewriter, legacy)
tt ru: Tatar
os_legacy ru: Ossetian (legacy)
os_winkeys ru: Ossetian (Windows)
cv ru: Chuvash
cv_latin ru: Chuvash (Latin)
udm ru: Udmurt
kom ru: Komi
sah ru: Yakut
xal ru: Kalmyk
dos ru: Russian (DOS)
mac ru: Russian (Macintosh)
srp ru: Serbian (Russia)
bak ru: Bashkirian
chm ru: Mari
phonetic_azerty ru: Russian (phonetic, AZERTY)
phonetic_dvorak ru: Russian (phonetic, Dvorak)
phonetic_fr ru: Russian (phonetic, French)
yz rs: Serbian (Cyrillic, ZE and ZHE swapped)
latin rs: Serbian (Latin)
latinunicode rs: Serbian (Latin, Unicode)
latinyz rs: Serbian (Latin, QWERTY)
latinunicodeyz rs: Serbian (Latin, Unicode, QWERTY)
alternatequotes rs: Serbian (Cyrillic, with guillemets)
latinalternatequotes rs: Serbian (Latin, with guillemets)
rue rs: Pannonian Rusyn
alternatequotes si: Slovenian (with guillemets)
us si: Slovenian (US)
bksl sk: Slovak (extended backslash)
qwerty sk: Slovak (QWERTY)
qwerty_bksl sk: Slovak (QWERTY, extended backslash)
nodeadkeys es: Spanish (no dead keys)
winkeys es: Spanish (Windows)
deadtilde es: Spanish (dead tilde)
sundeadkeys es: Spanish (Sun dead keys)
dvorak es: Spanish (Dvorak)
ast es: Asturian (Spain, with bottom-dot H and L)
cat es: Catalan (Spain, with middle-dot L)
mac es: Spanish (Macintosh)
nodeadkeys se: Swedish (no dead keys)
dvorak se: Swedish (Dvorak)
rus se: Russian (Sweden, phonetic)
rus_nodeadkeys se: Russian (Sweden, phonetic, no dead keys)
smi se: Northern Saami (Sweden)
mac se: Swedish (Macintosh)
svdvorak se: Swedish (Svdvorak)
us_dvorak se: Swedish (Dvorak, intl.)
us se: Swedish (US)
swl se: Swedish Sign Language
legacy ch: German (Switzerland, legacy)
de_nodeadkeys ch: German (Switzerland, no dead keys)
de_sundeadkeys ch: German (Switzerland, Sun dead keys)
fr ch: French (Switzerland)
fr_nodeadkeys ch: French (Switzerland, no dead keys)
fr_sundeadkeys ch: French (Switzerland, Sun dead keys)
fr_mac ch: French (Switzerland, Macintosh)
de_mac ch: German (Switzerland, Macintosh)
syc sy: Syriac
syc_phonetic sy: Syriac (phonetic)
ku sy: Kurdish (Syria, Latin Q)
ku_f sy: Kurdish (Syria, F)
ku_alt sy: Kurdish (Syria, Latin Alt-Q)
legacy tj: Tajik (legacy)
tam_unicode lk: Tamil (Sri Lanka, TamilNet '99)
tam_TAB lk: Tamil (Sri Lanka, TamilNet '99, TAB encoding)
us lk: Sinhala (US)
tis th: Thai (TIS-820.2538)
pat th: Thai (Pattachote)
f tr: Turkish (F)
alt tr: Turkish (Alt-Q)
sundeadkeys tr: Turkish (Sun dead keys)
ku tr: Kurdish (Turkey, Latin Q)
ku_f tr: Kurdish (Turkey, F)
ku_alt tr: Kurdish (Turkey, Latin Alt-Q)
intl tr: Turkish (intl., with dead keys)
crh tr: Crimean Tatar (Turkish Q)
crh_f tr: Crimean Tatar (Turkish F)
crh_alt tr: Crimean Tatar (Turkish Alt-Q)
indigenous tw: Taiwanese (indigenous)
saisiyat tw: Saisiyat (Taiwan)
phonetic ua: Ukrainian (phonetic)
typewriter ua: Ukrainian (typewriter)
winkeys ua: Ukrainian (Windows)
legacy ua: Ukrainian (legacy)
rstu ua: Ukrainian (standard RSTU)
rstu_ru ua: Russian (Ukraine, standard RSTU)
homophonic ua: Ukrainian (homophonic)
extd gb: English (UK, extended, Windows)
intl gb: English (UK, intl., with dead keys)
dvorak gb: English (UK, Dvorak)
dvorakukp gb: English (UK, Dvorak, with UK punctuation)
mac gb: English (UK, Macintosh)
mac_intl gb: English (UK, Macintosh, intl.)
colemak gb: English (UK, Colemak)
pl gb: Polish (British keyboard)
latin uz: Uzbek (Latin)
us vn: Vietnamese (US)
fr vn: Vietnamese (French)
kr104 kr: Korean (101/104-key compatible)
CloGaelach ie: CloGaelach
UnicodeExpert ie: Irish (UnicodeExpert)
ogam ie: Ogham
ogam_is434 ie: Ogham (IS434)
urd-crulp pk: Urdu (Pakistan, CRULP)
urd-nla pk: Urdu (Pakistan, NLA)
ara pk: Arabic (Pakistan)
snd pk: Sindhi
legacy epo: Esperanto (legacy)
igbo ng: Igbo
yoruba ng: Yoruba
hausa ng: Hausa (Nigeria)
left_hand brai: Braille (left-handed)
left_hand_invert brai: Braille (left-handed inverted thumb)
right_hand brai: Braille (right-handed)
right_hand_invert brai: Braille (right-handed inverted thumb)
alt tm: Turkmen (Alt-Q)
fr-oss ml: French (Mali, alt.)
us-mac ml: English (Mali, US, Macintosh)
us-intl ml: English (Mali, US, intl.)
kik ke: Kikuyu
qwerty-bay ph: Filipino (QWERTY, Baybayin)
capewell-dvorak ph: Filipino (Capewell-Dvorak, Latin)
capewell-dvorak-bay ph: Filipino (Capewell-Dvorak, Baybayin)
capewell-qwerf2k6 ph: Filipino (Capewell-QWERF 2006, Latin)
capewell-qwerf2k6-bay ph: Filipino (Capewell-QWERF 2006, Baybayin)
colemak ph: Filipino (Colemak, Latin)
colemak-bay ph: Filipino (Colemak, Baybayin)
dvorak ph: Filipino (Dvorak, Latin)
dvorak-bay ph: Filipino (Dvorak, Baybayin)
gag md: Moldavian (Gagauz)
phoneticx id: Indonesian (Arab Melayu, extended phonetic)
phonetic my: Malay (Jawi, phonetic)
EDIT: What I'm trying to say is that it is not viable to use '-layout us -variant intl'; if he does not want dead keys then he just needs to use '-layout us'. The problem is if he has a physical US International keyboard it is different to a standard US keyboard, and he apparently wants to use deadkeys.