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Description of problem:
When booting desktop initially and choose Japanese as a language, gnome-initial-setup suggests as following for input sources:

Japanese (PC-98)
Japanese (Kana Kanji)
Japanese
Japanese (Dvorak)
Japanese (Macintosh)
...

"Japanese" is chosen by default but the best choice should be "Japanese (Kana Kanji)". this was also happened in Fedora and already fixed by upstream. we need to backport a fix for RHEL8 too.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-initial-setup-3.28.0-8.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.log into desktop as new user
2.select Japanese as language
3.see default input source

Actual results:
"Japanese" or "日本語" is chosen

Expected results:
"Japanese (Kana Kanji)" or "日本語 (かな漢字)" should be chosen by default.

Additional info:

Can we confirm that this is still happening with 8.2?

(In reply to Jens Petersen from comment #3)
> Can we confirm that this is still happening with 8.2?

Yes, it's still the same behaviour with 8.2

Patch available in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-initial-setup/commit/07e24d6

(In reply to Tomas Popela from comment #9)
> Patch available in
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-initial-setup/commit/07e24d6

That patch sadly doesn't apply cleanly thanks to reduce-initial-setup-redundancy.patch, but should be pretty easy to backport.

Checked with - 
[test@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa gnome-initial-setup
gnome-initial-setup-3.28.0-9.el8.x86_64

By default, '日本語 (かな漢字)' is the input source now as expected.
Marking it as verified.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (gnome-initial-setup bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1785