On-screen keyboard for Japanese doesn't display Japanese characters, only English

[Hatsune]

This is about touch keyboard.
Screen keyboard doesn't display other languages characters, only english characters. I noticed many users concern about that on forums

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please choose a specific language for this bug to be about.

[Hatsune (hatsune)]

@vanvugt "Please choose a specific language for this bug to be about."
Tamil, Thai, Sinhala(Sinhalese), Korean, Chinese, Japanese etc.

Steps to reproduce
1. Add these languages (may not need to apply system wide)
2. Switch to eg: Japanese
3. Tap(touch) on text field then screen keyboard will be appear automatically
   (Or force open screen keyboard manually)
4. You will see that, it still appear in english

(This also applicable to english characters based languages similar Spanish. just doesn't appear its unique screen keyboard)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

OK, let's make this bug about Japanese which is already being tracked in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/3422

Thai it seems already exists in GNOME 3.36 according to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/3106

The other keyboard layouts I'm not sure about. Please log upstream bugs for each at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Indeed it seems of that list only Thai alreay exists:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/tree/master/data/osk-layouts

For the other missing layouts please open a new bug for each one at:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues

[Hatsune (hatsune)]

@vanvugt i'll fix that myself ^_^

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.38.4-1ubuntu2

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gnome-shell (3.38.4-1ubuntu2) hirsute; urgency=medium

  [ Daniel van Vugt ]
  * Add layout-Try-to-allocate-before-getting-size-of-tracke.patch.
    To fix LP: #1919979 and also to re-fix LP: #1917939
    (LP: #1919979, #1917939)
  * Drop layout-Allow-updating-struts-in-Overview.patch.
    Because it caused a regression and doesn't seem to have been necessary
    anyway. (LP: #1922772)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: Fix suggestions box actor population in non-latin languages
    (LP: #1914230)
  * debian/patches: Enable to use Escape to cancel auth requests (with limits)
    (LP: #1921929)
  * debian/patches: Refresh

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:20:27 +0200