I am trying to write programs inside gedit on Unbuntu for windows but I have encountered a strange issue. After opening gedit when I try to type symbols like | or the gedit editor instead recognizes it as a completely different character. The keyboard layout is messed up when I used gedit specifically. Other keys like $, & et cetera seem to work fine. I have xming installed for gedit. Here are some key mappings as observed when I try to type inside gedit

@ types ”
types #
| types ~

types £

I have set my Windows Language to English US and even set the locale as US inside Ubuntu for Windows. However, gedit seems to be unaffected by anything. Nano and vim work fine but I need to use gedit specifically. Please help. I seriously want to fix this issue.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS on Windows 10 x86_64
Kernel: 4.4.0-22621-Microsoft

I tried sudo apt full-upgrade

I have set my Windows Language to English US and even set the locale as US inside Ubuntu for Windows.

I tried this but it did not work:

vipulkulshreshtha@VIP-PC-L:~/blabla2$ localectl status
Failed to create bus connection: No such file or directory
vipulkulshreshtha@VIP-PC-L:~/blabla2$ sudo localectl set-keymap us

so I tried:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

and set the keyboard as Dell (I’m using a dell laptop) and keyboard as English US (default)

After that I did the following:

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

However, gedit seems to be unaffected by anything. Nano and vim work fine but I need to use gedit specifically. Please help. I read other answers on stackoverflow and github but nothing helped. I seriously want to fix this issue and continue using gedit on WSL/Ubuntu on Windows.