Comment 14 for bug 1683383

Not exactly a bug, it's just how it works by default and that is what the xkb specs supposedly say. So this behavior dates way back certainly more that 15 yrs ))
And the fix was incorporated by Ubuntu only a couple of yrs ago certainly not in 2002 )))

The 'workaround' suggested above is what I use btw. And what have used on other distros.