Comment 11 for bug 1332847

I understand completely what you write now, and won't argue with you. After all I don't speak any language which requires an input method, so my view wouldn't be worth much anyway.

As we already agreed on, it's the upstream maintainers you need to convince. And to make it more complicated, it's not obvious that the Chinese maintainers have the same view on this topic as the Japanese and Korean ones.

Chinese is the simple case, I think. There would the "us" layout be natural in most cases.

Not that easy with Japanese and Korean. Those languages have special "jp" respective "kr" XKB layouts, which are close to "us", but not quite. Instead they are designed to be used together with some input method.

To get an idea of the complexity of this topic you may want to check out the discussion at this issue:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/196