Windows 10: Input language yet keyboard layout for all windows started from one binary

How to force Windows to switch to one input language yet keyboard layout different than default ones for all windows started from certain disk binary file?

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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 with
all 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 languages
and 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 Windows Insider Program and act! In any case, please upvote that feedback!

 

Keyboard Layout

"Letters and numbers are all correct, but most of the other signs are misplaced"

This suggests to me that you are using the wrong "keyboard language" for your keyboard, and that therefore you first step would be to determine exactly what language keyboard you have. Possibly have a look at Windows Keyboard Layouts - Globalization | Microsoft Docs.

(The age of any laptop capable of running Windows 10 at all should not be a problem as regards keyboard layout)

 

Input language English, Keyboard German

Hi,



I realize that you are facing the issue with the Keyboard layout in Windows 10, let me assist you.

This issue might occur if the input method settings are not configured properly.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

• 
  Press Windows key + X key and select
  Control Panel from the menu.
  
• 
  Click on Clock, Language, and Region option.
  
• 
  Click on Language and click on
  Advanced settings in the left pane.
  
• 
  Select the required input in the drop down menu under
  Override for default input method.
  
• 
  Click on Save.
  

If the required language is not listed, follow the steps below to add the required language and then perform the above mentioned changes.

• 
  Press Windows key + I
  key and select Time & Language.
  
• 
  Click on Region & language in the left pane, click on
  Add a language and select the required language from the list.
  
  
  

Hope the information helps. Kindly write back to us with the updated status of the issue for further assistance on Windows. We will be glad to assist you.