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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!
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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!
Continue reading...