Comment 15 for bug 13346

hello all,

I did saw the problem too on my computer, I have a Ubuntu 6.06 install in french with a french keyboard.
When I plug my spare japanese USB keyboard and I switch keyboard layout with gnome-keyboard-properties I am able to only input katakanas and alphabet (when using the switching keys).

On this regard, I found the keyboard layout being very incomplete.
When in gnome-keyboard-properties you have a look at the available layouts, you can see a LOT of keyboards with all their signs written on (have a look at latina america, bosnia or belguim), but the japanese one only revels alphabet signs.
There are keys missing too like at the left and the right of the space key.

Here I attach a photo-mount of my keyboard so that you can compare with what the gnome-keyboard-properties app shows.