wrong behavior key in Japanese Layout

[Nobuto Murata]

Binary package hint: onboard
Latest Package Tested: onboard 0.94.0-0ubuntu2b1

In Japanese keyboard layout, there is a key "<" between "Z" and left shift key.
 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42635208/onboad.png (Number 2 in this image)
The key, I guess, is the alternative of the one between "^" and backspace.
 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42634480/KB_Japanese_dev.png (Number 2 in this image)
But the key does not behave properly.

How to reproduce:
 1. set the layout Japan-Japan in gnome-keyboard-properties.
 2. launch onboard.

Expected result:
 the key should be the one which generates backslash keycode, but which is showed as Yen sign "¥" (U+00A5) on keytop.
 When shift is pressed, the key should be bar key "|".

Actual result:
 the key is "<" key. ">" is when shift is pressed. bar "|" when AltGr is pressed.

Japanese layout does not have AltGr key in general.
But actually in onBoard, the key needs AltGr.
After this change made, AltGr can be safely converted to right Alt key.

ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: onboard 0.93.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic-pae
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 31 17:14:19 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ja_JP:ja:en_GB:en
 LANG=ja_JP.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: onboard

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test a current Ubuntu Ubuntu10.10. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD.

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

It's still reproducible with onboard 0.94.0-0ubuntu2b1 and natty alpha2.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!