Confirmed this is fixed in the current codebase in natty; closing bug.
However, the fix is a bit different than the attached patch - they used
just 'j' and 'J' rather than the circumflex variations, so you might
want to follow up in a separate bug to request that feature if you still
think it's
This bug was fixed upstream (for the latin layout only) :
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/?id=71001bc8956e382496f1572ce3f8efa270adc2b1
It seems to have been imported into Launchpad already:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alexeyten/xkeyboard-config/master/revision/1169
The
I think I've found the problem: the latin keyboard, upon which the it layout is
defined, has this definition of the j letter:
key AC07 { [ j, J ] };
while all the other definitions are of this kind:
key AC08 { [ k, K, kra,ampersand ] };
