Comment 0 for bug 1925792

Ubuntu 21-04 installed from scratch (on dual-boot) a few days before stable release.

To be able to switch to a language that requires a keyboard different than my own, I used the GUI's "language and region" settings > "manage installed languages" > install/remove languages. I found "Russian" and it was added. Next i pressed the + sign. Selecting "Russian (Russian Federation)" yielded 2 keyboards: "Russian", "Russian (Polyglot and Reactionary)".

Neither keyboard was "phonetic". The phonetic keyboard has been with the standard Ubuntu installs for at least ten years.

According to Gunnar Hjalmarsson "Ubuntu 21.04 is shipped with the same version of the xkb-data package as in 20.04 and 20.10, so nothing has changed. And multiple variants are available, including the one named Russian (phonetic)." So this should be fairly easy to fix, no?

I find that the language settings are a little too complicated for me to tamper with on the terminal, but I am including the information I was able to collect:

~$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
...
nb_NO.utf8
POSIX
ru_RU.utf8
ru_UA.utf8

$ setxkbmap -print -verbose
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+us+inet(evdev)
geometry: pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.38.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 23 13:51:25 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-19 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210331.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)