Windows 10: How to remove Unknown Locale keyboard in Windows 10

There is a strange error reported by some users lately about an Unknown Locale keyboard wherein this unknown locale is listed in their keyboard list – but doesn’t show up in any of the language settings. The common one being reported is the qaa-Latn locale. In this post today, we will learn how to remove this unknown locale from your PC.

How to remove Unknown Locale (qaa-Latn) keyboard




The steps you can take are:

1. Uninstall any third-party keyboard app
2. Remove language from the language settings
3. Use PowerShell Script
4. Use Command Prompt

1] Uninstall any third-party keyboard app


Check if you have any third-party keyboard apps installed on your machine. This error of Unknown Locate reportedly is seen because of the app Keyman (keyboard app). Go to the installed programs from Control Panel and see if it is there.

If you have this application installed on your PC, uninstall it and reboot your PC. Check if the qaa-Latn locale is gone.

2]Uninstall the language from the language settings


To remove the Unknown Locale (qq-Latn) keyboard, you can first install and then uninstall the language from your PC.

Go to Settings (Win+I)

Open Time & Language–>Language

Type qqaa-Latn and click on Next and Install.



Wait for a minute or so and you can see qaa-Latn in your preferred languages

Then you can remove it simply by clicking on Remove.

Reboot your PC and check the keyboard languages, it should be there anymore.




This should solve your issue.

3] Use Powershell Command


If the above-mentioned tips don’t work, you can try the Powershell Command. To open Powershell, click on the Windows icon on your screen and type Powershell. Run it as administrator.

Type command

Get-WinUserLanguageList

If you see qaa-latn in the list, type command-

Set-WinUserLanguageList en-US -Force

and hit Enter.

This should most possibly remove the locale qaa-Latn from your keyboard and change it to English-US.

Type this command again to check-

Get-WinUserLanguageList



You are set!

4] Use Command Prompt


Using Powershell will probably solve your issue but if it doesn’t try using the Command Prompt.

Click on the Win icon on your screen and type cmd, right-click on Command Prompt, and select Run as Administrator.

In the Command Prompt, type the command-

Lpksetup /u

This will open a pop-up to uninstall the languages from your PC.

If you see qaa-Latn in the list of display languages, you can uninstall it from here.

These were some tested fixes for the issues of the Unknown Locale keyboard.

Hope this solves your problem, do let us know if it does.


This article How to remove Unknown Locale keyboard in Windows 10 first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

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How to remove the Unknown Locale(qaa-latn) language

Hi. After I updated the Windows 10 ,there is a keyboard selection
on the keyboard list called Unknown Locale (qaa-latn).I don't know what is that stuff and why is it displayed there. Can anyone tell me what is that and how can I remove it. Thank you.

 

How to remove the Unknown Locale(qaa-latn) language

Same problem without KeyMan.

Early after updates Windows (cumulative or feather) add another languages. In most cases EN-UK.

Now this: Qaa-Latn with US keyboard.

This bug exists possible 10+ years! All my bug reports without any result. Fix it at last. Or make language list editor output real actual list... Currently it work like language chooser and language list editor made by different programmers with different
API. Awful result.

I use 2 languages:

- English (United States); Default app language; Default input language, Windows display language.

- Russian

Region:

- Country = Latvia

- Regional format = English (Europe)

System Locale = Russia

Any suggestions how to remove qaa-Latn?

Get-WinUserLanguageList also doesnt output it => can't remove via powershell

thank you.

 

Cannot remove Keyboard Layout

Hi,

It is possible that you need to configure your keyboard layout that is why you still see it in the list even you already remove it. To address your issue, we suggest that you follow the steps on this

thread provided by DikkeryDok last October 27, 2017 to remove the specific keyboard layout you are referring to.

Let us know if you need further assistance.