Weird, I live with a Croatian and I seem to remember her former Acer laptop had a Croatian keyboard, with differences compared to a classic ANSI English keyboard. Or was it just Croatian keycaps on a non-Croatian ANSI layout? Maybe I'm mistaken. Anyway that was not a backlit keyboard, just a low end Acer disposable laptop.

I forced her to switch to ANSI Qwerty and US International (which I did too, from ISO Azerty, and now my life is better). She didn't do the transition so well though, now I'm better at typing Croatian characters than she is, even if I have no use for it since I only know the big words.

All that just to say that the transition to ANSI Qwerty for non-English speakers is totally possible thanks to US International. It might be a rocky road, but the reward once used to it is really something (more characters, more flexibility, more devices). Not everyone will like it of course (especially if having multiple devices, then it is mandatory to be able to type without looking at the keys), and not everyone will want to go through the learning curve. That's totally understandable, but doing so opens new horizons.