Windows 10: Adding a new input language must not add any keyboard layout

Suppose you're on a system with a French AZERTY layout physical keyboard and you want to enter text in both French and English.

You will add English to the list of input languages, but this will derive from this that you want the US QWERTY keyboard layout, which is plain wrong.

When adding a new input language, the associated keyboard layout must be the one currently in use.

Maybe, if there are multiple keyboard layouts installed, then that new input language could be associated withall those keyboard layouts.

IOW, if the current setup is "input language X, keyboard layout Y", if I add input language Z then it must be associated with keyboard layout Y, not some default layout inferred from Z.


The current links between input language and keyboard layout are just plain wrong:

1. you switch input languages only because you need to type text in different languages, not because you're using a different physical keyboard or remoting from a machine with a different physical keyboard.

2. conversely, you change keyboard layouts because you have multiple physical keyboards, or because you're remoting into machine A that has physical keyboard X from machine B that has physical keyboard Y, not because you start entering text in a different language


BTW, note that the new Windows 10 to switch among input language, keyboard layout combinations using Win+SPACE makes this unnecessarily cumbersome and/or confusing for people using N multiple input languagesand P multiple keyboard layouts, because they have to select from a list of N*P entries.



Do you concur?


Please comment!



P.S. I hope Microsoft will listen to https://aka.ms/AAa4gp2 and act! In any case, please upvote that feedback!

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Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout

That doesnt work anymore, language isnt in control panel

can i get new instructions?

 

The extra keyboard layout keep adding to my language bar (with Pics)

Hi Panupong,

The updated Windows 10 may have detected your language, the reason why it automatically gave you the other Thai US keyboard. To correct this issue, we suggest that you follow these steps:

• Click on the Start Menu, type in region and language settings and select it.
• Under Languages, select Thai Kedmanee keyboard and click Remove.
• Lastly, add it back by clicking Add a language.

After these steps, your keyboard layout will permanently stay with Thai Kedmanee keyboard.

Let us know if the steps above resolved your issue.

 

Keyboard layout


Open Advanced Language Settings:



(Click screenshots to enlarge.)

Two settings here to check:

1. Override the default input language with your preferred input language, even if there's only one language on the list
2. Don't let websites access the language list

To be sure that the correct settings will be used for all user accounts created later, copy the settings: