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[Shaurabh Bharti <sbharti@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  unity dash does not take input from several xkb keyboard layouts

Status in unity-scope-home package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I own lenovo z50 and recently installed 16.04 LTS. I use ubuntu in
  Hindi language. The following issue was also noticed in ubuntu
  14.04LTS and later releases (although I did not file any bug for it).

  Unity dash window (which comes after pressing Super key) does not take
  input from several keyboard layouts. "Indian" keyboard layout is used
  for Hindi language. When I type in unity dash to search for
  applications or files, it will not register any input whatsoever.
  However, it works fine when "English (US)" or "English (India)"
  keyboard layouts are selected.

  "Indian" keyboard layout inputs fine in any other editor or wherever
  keyboard input is required.

  I digged down further and found several language layouts face the same
  problem. These include "arabic", "armenian", "bangla", "georgian",
  "gujarati", "greek", "hebrew", "iraqi", "malayalam", "mongolian",
  "oriya", "punjabi (gurumukhi)", "tamil" and "telugu". Many of these
  are layouts for indian languages but few are not. This is not
  exhaustive list and I only checked few languages at hand.

  These keyboard layouts come installed by default with standard ubuntu
  installation.

  As many applications come renamed in Hindi, it is impossible to search
  them currently in Unity dash as it doesnt take Hindi input at all.

  I tried to file bug via ubuntu-bug or apport-bug but did not succeed,
  hence filing a bug here. I would be happy to attach any other
  information required for this.

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