Languages do not always switch to "Japanese (Anthy)" properly when using top-bar switcher or keyboard shortcut

[Wise Melon]

I have recently noticed that when switching from languages such as "Russian" or "Arabic" to "Japanese (Anthy)", though seemingly never "English (UK)/(US)", that it doesn't properly switch and carries on typing whichever language it was that I was trying to change from. I have made a screencast of what I experience (sorry that it's a little slow and has a few issues such as where I accidentally brought up the find feature in gedit, twice):

    Strange_Anthy_Language_Switching_Bug.mp4

And as said in my comment update:

I have now also noticed that if I use the LeftShift+RightShift keyboard shortcut to switch between "English (UK)", "Russian", and "Japanese (Anthy)" that it switches fine to "Russian", however when it is displayed as being set to "Japanese (Anthy)" in the top bar, it still types only in Russian as it does when it is set to the previous option of "Russian". Though pressing it again will return it to "English (UK)".

It doesn't appear to matter which language is before or after it, it will just take the form of whatever language is before it when switching using the keyboard shortcut which is rather annoying.

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20, but this issue is also present on Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 with GNOME 3.22.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

I have now also noticed that if I use the LeftShift+RightShift keyboard shortcut to switch between "English (UK)", "Russian", and "Japanese (Anthy)" that it switches fine to "Russian", however when it is displayed as being set to "Japanese (Anthy)" in the top bar, it still types only in Russian as it does when it is set to the previous option of "Russian". Though pressing it again will return it to "English (UK)".

It doesn't appear to matter which language is before or after it, it will just take the form of whatever language is before it when switching using the keyboard shortcut which is rather annoying.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

Also, I am now running Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 with GNOME 3.22 and still have this behaviour.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-life in April 2019.

https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-16-04-lts-is-here/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME

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