Keyboard layout setting in DOSBox has no effect

Question

DOSBox forces Czech keyboard on me for use in the console, which isn't even funny. I googled and found how manual advises to change layout:

To switch to a different keyboard layout, either the entry keyboardlayout in the [dos] section of the DOSBox dosbox.conf configuration file can be used

So I edited my file, which now contains the following:

[dos]
keyboardlayout=us103
[autoexec] 
keyboardlayout=us103
MOUNT C C:\MYSELF\Hry\DOS
C:

This doesn't work. Keyboard remains Czech. I ran these commands to verify what keyboard is configured and that the command works. It does, see below:

So the question: How to configure DOSBox layout to be permanently US?

Note: The available layouts appear to be these (copied here for future reader's reference):

us103 (us), ux103 (ux)                       US, US International
dv103 (dv), lh103 (lh), rh103 (rh)           US Dvorak, Left-Hand, Right-Hand
sq448, sq452 (sq)                            Albania
hy                                           Armenia*
az                                           Azerbaijan*
by463 (bl463,by,bl)                          Belarus*
be120 (be)                                   Belgium
ba234 (ba)                                   Bosnia & Herzegovina
br274, br275 (br)                            Brazil
bg241, bg442 (bg)                            Bulgaria
ca58 (cf58,ca,cf), ca445 (cf445), cf501      Canada
hr234 (hr)                                   Croatia
cz243, cz                                    Czech Republic
dk159 (dk)                                   Denmark
ee454 (et454,ee,et)                          Estonia*
fo                                           Faroe Islands
fi153 (su153,fi,su)                          Finland
fr120, fr189 (fr)                            France
ka                                           Georgia*
de129 (gr129,de,gr), de453 (gr453)           Germany
gk220 (el220), gk319 (el319,gk,el), gk459 (el459)  Greece
hu208, hu                                    Hungary
is458 (is), is161 (is197)                    Iceland
it141 (it), it142                            Italy
kk                                           Kazakhstan*
ky                                           Kyrgyzstan*
la171 (la)                                   Latin-American-Spanish
lv, lv455                                    Latvia*
lt210, lt211, lt212 (lt), lt221, lt456       Lithuania*
mk449 (mk)                                   Macedonia
mt47 (ml47), mt (ml)                         Malta
mn (mo)                                      Mongolia*
nl143 (nl)                                   Netherlands
no155 (no)                                   Norway
ph                                           Philippines
pl214, pl457 (pl)                            Poland
po163 (po)                                   Portugal
ro333 (ro), ro446                            Romania
ru441 (ru), ru443                            Russia
sr118 (sr), sr450                            Serbia & Montenegro
sk245 (sk)                                   Slovakia
si234 (si)                                   Slovenia
es172 (sp172,es173,sp173,es,sp)              Spain
sv153 (sv)                                   Sweden
sd150 (sg150,sd,sg), sf150 (sf)              Swiss
tm                                           Turkmenistan
tr179 (tr), tr440                            Turkey
ua465 (ur465), ua (ur)                       Ukraine*
uk166 (uk), uk168                            United Kingdom
uz                                           Uzbekistan*
yu234 (yu)                                   Yugoslavia

Answer 1

How to configure DOSBox layout to be permanently US?

keyboardlayout=us103

Try

keyboardlayout=us

without the trailing 103.

You can also use the keyb command:

keyb us

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keyb

Introduction

Keyb is used to change the layout of the keyboard used for different countries. Syntax

Configures a keyboard for a specific language.

KEYB [keyboard layout code/id]

For example the following will set your keyboard layout to a Swedish keyboard:

KEYB sv

or for not default character set:

KEYB sv 437

The keyboard layout can also be set in dosbox.conf (see Configuration:DOS), so it can also be set with the internal CONFIG command:

CONFIG -set dos keyboardlayout [keyboard layout code/id]

Source DOSBox Wiki - KEYB