Windows 10: Bug - Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator MSKLC Version 1.4 - AltGr + a

VersionsMicrosoft Keyboard Layout Creator: 1.4.6000.2OS: Microsoft Windows 10 ProIssueAltGr + a cannot create any special Unicode characterSteps to reproduce the issue1. Open Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator: 1.4.6000.2 on Windows 10 Pro 2. Load existing keyboard "US"3. Toggle Alt+Ctrl Shift State4. Click on the white space referring to the "A" key on an US layout keyboard5. Enter U+00E4 for e.g. "ä"6. Test layout within Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator the produced dll and setup package will behave the same by pressing Alt+Ctrl+a What's the expected result?Alt+Ctrl or AltGr

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Keyboard layout made with MSKLC showing wrong name.

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I appreciate your efforts on this. I see that you are using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to create keyboard layouts. I would like to inform that this is an old program, which was initially designed to work on Windows XP computers.



Good to know that the program is working for you. One of the thing I would suggest you to try is to change the description of the keyboard layout that you have created and see if that helps. Refer the steps mentioned below:

1. Open Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.
   
2. Click on File and load the keyboard layout.
   
3. Click on Project, and click on
   Properties.
   
4. Change the Description of the keyboard layout.
   
5. Click on OK.
   

If this doesn’t work, you may try rebuilding the DLL and Setup Package. After rebuilding the DLL and Setup Package go to Start >> Settings >> Time & Language >> Language >> Click on the language pack and select
options, now click on the old keyboard layout and select
Remove.



Let us know how it goes.



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

US International keyboard layout AltGr in Windows 10 with no dead keys

I use a QWERTY keyboard, in the international variant, in order to have the accentuated letters of the european languages. One Problem of this layout is that:

Xorg: Using the US International (altgr-intl variant) Keyboard Layout | Shinobus Secrets

So I decided to create a layout based on this international version, but without the two dead keys. It is very simple:
-I installed Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 by microsoft
Download Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 from Official Microsoft Download Center
which gives this:



-I remove the option of those 2 red keys to be dead keys and I create the layout by copying the european dead keys to the keys `, ~, ', ".
One problem is that the key "/' has already a dead key by default, so I moved those to SHIFT+CTRL



- - - Updated - - -
This layout is called
États-Unis International - AltGr touches mortes
and is available here
https://multiup.org/download/1152d04...dbd1/euiatm.7z
Jheberg
Download euiatm.7z - MirrorAce
https://go4up.com/dl/8da4ead51b017b

On my computer, this keyboard did not work with the french language pack, until I installed the language pack for american english.

So I think that in order to use this layout without the american language pack, the layout must be exported for french keyboard. If case this is right, I upload such a variant here
https://go4up.com/dl/bf2ac2e6c8363c
Download euiatmfr.7z - MirrorAce
Jheberg
https://multiup.org/download/8bb8ddb...7d/euiatmfr.7z

 

Alternative of MSKLC

Hi! Thanks for your response.

I'm not looking for a key remapper. I'm looking for a full featured keyboard layout creator. My layout has four level (Normal, Shift, AltGr, AltGr + Shift). And, it's not for English, it's for Bangla, which needs almost 65+ independent glyphs to be added
in the layout.

I need to create a layout which is installable in any Windows 10 machine, i.e. will produce a setup.exe file, for example. MSKLC had this support.