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[Brandon Schaefer <1226962@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup, on 13.10. My ctrl+t know doesn't work. Sooo i must have messed up
testing it :). So yes there is a problem there.

Really im just wondering what use to happen, if this is a regression. As
I see 3 cases, and 2 different ways to handle this.

1)  You are using a standard qwerty latin keyboard with all the keys in the correct spot.
2)  You are using a different layout where they keys (such as 't') may be in different locations.
3)  You are using a language where such a key does not exists (such as 't').

The two ways to possibly handle this, as in case 1 there is no need to
change how we handle it.

If case 2, use the new location of the key if it has moved.
If case 3, use the keycode of the key it self when no such key exists.

Not entirely sure what the approach should be and would like to discuss
this a bit more before heading down an implementation.

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Title:
  Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout

Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  New keyboard layout changer in Ubuntu 13.10 introduce  old-new bug. Any system or application hotkey witch use char (for example: ctrl+alt+t for terminal or ctrl+t for new tab in browser) become unfunctional when selected non-latin keyboard layout. 
  Hotkeys with F1-12, numbers and other non-character buttons works perfectly. 

  Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system
  parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard
  layout.

  Workaround for some system hotkeys and two layouts (english and non-
  latin): rebind all hotkeys in your local layout. For example instead
  of ctrl+alt+t use ctrl+alt+τ (greek tau). That hotkey still work with
  english layout.  If you use english and two different non-latin
  layouts this workaround helps only with one of them.

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