[w3c/uievents-key] Mac keyboards other than US are unrepresented in the spec (Issue #66)

The only keyboard is present in the spec now is Apple US English layout, but there is a whole bunch of different keyboards in Mac world that is tightly coupled with mac OS keycodes implementation.

Just a few for a reference:

US English (currently considered in spec as Apple-wide keyboard)
![US English](https://github.com/w3c/uievents-key/assets/31408417/16180da8-f312-4b25-a4c4-90a68c2504ee)

British English (note that `Backquote` keycap is located completely different from any other keyboard in spec)
![image](https://github.com/w3c/uievents-key/assets/31408417/7a5577ca-8ae2-4227-a1ca-6dcb3414b5b4)

Japanese (numeric row differs significantly from Japanese keyboard described in spec)
![image](https://github.com/w3c/uievents-key/assets/31408417/d0044a93-44e2-45db-ac48-365cb5a7289d)

This differences already presented some implicit implementation details in Chromium and Firefox that behaves differently from what end-users see on their Apple keyboard keycaps and differs from Safari implementation (see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1296783, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1263302)

Maybe we can revise a spec so it would clarify behaviour on mac OS browsers?

Thanks!

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