Comment 3 for bug 1958492

My bad, it's just "Japanese" (I didn't run the installation again just to check the exact hardcoded text for the bug report).

My point was that the physical actual keyboard is a japanese one with 109 keys (the usual in japanese keyboards).
The japanese layout has some keys that just plainly don't exist in other layouts (全角/半角, 変換, 無変換,カタカナ・ひらがな, a \ to the left of the small right shift, and a yen sign to the left of its small backspace).

Sorry for the confusion.

What I'm saying is that the layout in the OS doesn't change at all.
Note how I never said "I can't type in Japanese" in the bug report. I could if I -like you said- changed input mode to Hiragana in mozc. But that's not how you do it with a japanese keyboard.

With a japanese keyboard (and correct layout) you just press the 全角/半角 (zenkaku/hankaku) key which changes input mode between direct input and the currently/last used kana mode (usually hiragana, but might be katakana), no need to use menues.

Even if Input Mode was in Direct Input the layout should be in Japanese regardless of being unable to type in japanese characters.

eg: If I press the key to the right of the P it should type @ like in the Japanese keyboard, not a [, if I press shift-7 it should be a single quote not an ampersand, etc.

Like I said, I don't know if it's even a mozc problem, and I fixed it by explicitly setting the layout to "jp" in ibus/component/mozc.xml which maybe points to ibus, rather than mozc itself.

One of the first things I said is that mozc probably wasn't the right place for this bug report.