Controlling Dutch MacBooks from a German MacBook (keyboard layout)

I work at a company which has about 200 MacBooks with Dutch keyboard layouts (QWERTY), but I've got a German keyboard layout (QWERTZ) on my own MacBook. ARD is installed on my MacBook with German Keyboard layout.
For some reason ARD uses the keyboard layout of the MacBook I'm controlling, instead of the keyboard layout of my own MacBook. So, when I'm controlling a MacBook with a Dutch keyboard layout and I press the Z key, a Y appears on the screen.
Why does ARD use the keyboard layout of the Mac I'm controlling, instead of the keyboard layout of the Mac ARD is running on? My fingers aren't situated on the keyboard of the Mac I'm controlling, but on the keyboard of my own Mac. In my opinion it would be obvious to use the keyboard layout of my own Mac, not the keyboard layout of the Mac I'm controlling.
How else are you going to manage hundreds of Macs in an international company which has English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese and some other keyboard layouts? Everytime you log on to a remote Mac you have to find out which keyboard layout is used on the remote Mac. This sounds as a serious bug to me.
Isn't there a way to let ARD use the keyboard layout of the Mac on which ARD is installed, instead of that of the system I'm controlling?

It may not be what you are after, but when I lived in Austria, I bought a normal desktop keyboard (German) and used that plugged in to the USB port on my PowerBook.
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