Remapping doesn't work correctly (Ubuntu 18)

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I have recently installed UBuntu 18 LTS, I´m a beginner... I have got a laptop with German keyboard but I am Italian so I basically tried to remap characters using a tutorial I have found here, this one What are the steps needed to create new keyboard layout on ubuntu?. However the resulting keyboard is not equal to the expected one by any chance. I started from the de file in usr/share/x11/xkb/symbols and modifying that I created my own version. But none of the modifications is correctly understood,. I modified all the file using sudo gedit. I post here the modification I made and a snapshot of resulting layout.

 // based on a keyboard map from an 'xkb/symbols/de' file

default xkb_symbols "basic" {

    include "latin(type4)"

    name[Group1]="German";

    key <AE02>  { [         2,   quotedbl,  twosuperior,    oneeighth ] };
    key <AE03>  { [         3,    section, threesuperior,    sterling ] };
    key <AE04>  { [         4,     dollar,   onequarter,     currency ] };

    key <AE11> {type[Group1]="FOUR_LEVEL_PLUS_LOCK",  symbols[Group1]=
                  [ssharp, question, backslash, questiondown, 0x1001E9E ]};
    key <AE12>  { [**iacute**, **Iacute**, dead_cedilla,  dead_ogonek ] };

    key <AD03>  { [         e,          E,     EuroSign,     EuroSign ] };
    key <AD06>  { [         **y**,          **Y**    leftarrow,          yen ]  };
    key <AD11>  { [**ugrave**, **Ugrave**, dead_diaeresis, dead_abovering ] };
    key <AD12>  { [     **egrave**, plus,   asterisk,   asciitilde ]    };

    key <AC02>  { [         s,          S,                U017F,     U1E9E    ] };
    key <AC07>  { [         j,          J,        dead_belowdot, dead_abovedot   ] };
    key <AC10>  { [**ograve, Ograve**, dead_doubleacute, dead_belowdot ] };
    key <AC11>  { [**agrave, Agrave**, dead_circumflex, dead_caron ] };
    key <TLDE>  { [dead_circumflex, degree, U2032,    U2033 ] };

    key <BKSL>  { [numbersign, apostrophe, rightsinglequotemark,   dead_breve ] };
    key <AB01>  { [         **z,          Z,**       guillemotright,    U203A   ] };
    key <AB02>  { [         x,          X,        guillemotleft,    U2039   ] };
    key <AB04>  { [         v,          V,   doublelowquotemark, singlelowquotemark ]   };
    key <AB05>  { [         b,          B,  leftdoublequotemark, leftsinglequotemark ] };
    key <AB06>  { [         n,          N, rightdoublequotemark, rightsinglequotemark ] };
    key <AB08>  { [     comma,  semicolon,       periodcentered,     multiply   ] };
    key <AB09>  { [    period,      colon,                U2026,     division   ] };
    key <AB10>  { [     minus, underscore,               endash,     emdash ] };
    key <LSGT>  { [     less,     greater,                  bar, dead_belowmacron ] };

    include "kpdl(comma)"

I have highlighted with ** ** the only things I have modified. Here´s instead what I changed in the usr/share/x11/xbk/rules/evdev.xml file:

    <layout>
<configItem>
    <name> oe </name>
    <shortDescription> cust </shortDescription>
    <description> GermanCustom </description>
    <languageList>
        <iso639Id> ger </iso639Id>
</languageList>

added at the end, before closing layoutList tag. To sump up what i tried to to do, my point was in the german qwertz keyboard at least to remap z and y to get a qwerty keyboard and wovel with grave accent in place of wovels with dieresis. HOwever when I press for example udieresis I get a [ so a completelz random character and checking the layout from the setting I get a completely wrong layout. I really need to fix this, help please...

Remapping doesn't work correctly (Ubuntu 18)

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