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[Misha Bazanov <1226962@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Péter you are right, if we think about layouts/unicode/etc. Not about hotkeys.
Hotkeys should be independent of keyboard layouts. In another case, it spoils the whole idea of hotkeys and makes them impossible to use. 
[ctrl, alt, meta (in any combination)] and some letter in non-latin layout must be converted to [ctrl, alt, meta (in any combination)] and latin letter(or symbol) at the same button on keyboard. If it contradicts the standard, it is a stupid standard.
example:
Russian ё converted to ` 
н - y
ж - ;
Greek:
γ - g
θ - u
ρ - r

So we need only one system latin layout for hotkeys - drawed on the keyboard. It may be engish, german or other. 
All hotkeys in non-latin layouts should be converted to this layout.

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Title:
  Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout in 13.10

Status in IBus:
  New
Status in Indicator keyboard:
  Fix Released
Status in Mutter:
  New
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Invalid
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “indicator-keyboard” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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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  For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can see bug 1218322.
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