Windows 10: French Canadian language keyboard

As of Windows 11, I no longer have the Canadian Multilingual keyboard.It appears to be replaced with something called the French Canadian keyboard. BUT!When using the on screen so-called „soft“ keyboard, it appears to be the Canadian Intermediate keyboard – but – when accessing the keys, either from the „soft“ keyboard or a physical keyboard, it appears that it's really the very basic Canadian Bilingual keyboard.That is to say, when using the French Canadian keyboard, the keys do not behave as advertised on the „soft“ keyboard.For a reference of other language keyboards, see A Visual Compari

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canadian french keyboard missing


Hi,

New computer.

I could select the "Canadian French" language for the keyboard. This way I can use the blue characters on my HP omen.

Then I restarted, and there was windows updates.

Now, "Canadian French" keyboard disapeared ! I can use "French", but the keyboard is not good (I need the one using the blue keys).

How can I get back the "Canadian French" keyboard ?


Patrick

 

Keyboard languages are all over the place (English US/Canada, Canadian French)

I have to switch between multiple keyboard languages on a daily basis with Windows+Space, but the keyboard languages are all over the place, making switching between languages extremely annoying. I have a keyboard with US layout. These happen on both my
desktop and my laptop.

When I say "French (Canada)" or "Français (Canada)", I refer to the windows language.

When I say "Canadian French" and "Canadian French (Legacy)", I refer to the keyboard layouts

1. I have set Canada as my location, as it is where I live, but this causes the keyboard to randomly have both
English (United States) and
English (Canada) as languages despite the fact that I only have
English (United States) with
US keyboard in languages. They are exactly the same and I would like to somehow get rid of
English (Canada). Usually there is only one of them.

2. My french settings keep randomly switching. I usually use the Canadian French keyboard layout and I only have Canadian French in the languages settings under
French (Canada)

Sometimes, "Canadian French (Legacy)" (which behaves very differently when it comes to accents) is added and selected. I have never added "Canadian French (Legacy)" myself and it is not listed in settings despite appearing
in the language bar and being selectable and usable. In other words, it randomly adds and switches keyboards.

I used to be able to fix this by going into Languages/Français (Canada), adding some random layout (like dutch or whatever) so that I can remove
Canadian French (as it's the only one listed despite the fact that both
Canadian French and Canadian French (Legacy) are in the language bar), re-adding
Canadian French, and finally removing the random layout I added. This fix only works temporarily as it can happen again at any time and when rebooting.

This is driving me crazy as I have to switch between 4 different languages often (for example, accessing both french and english quotation marks) and this messes up big time with my muscle memory of Windows+Spacing to switch. If I miss the language I was
aiming for, I have to press space through all the list to get back where I was. My language bar also becomes pretty huge.

My language bar when it happens.





The language settings. Notice how English (United States is not a language)

 

canadian french keyboard missing


Actually, I just needed to restart the computer.
Then I saw "Canadian French" again.