Comment 1 for bug 298462

I have looked at my /usr/share/X11/symbols/latin , br and us files

They all seem to be setting the keys propperly

    key <AB08> { [ comma, less, horizconnector, multiply ] };
    key <AB09> { [ period, greater, periodcentered, division ] };

But I still get the wrong one when I type the "period"

I was able to reproduce this by updating another system with
sudo apt-ger update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

$ uname -a
Linux lumina 2.6.27-7-server #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 20:18:35 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux