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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:13:22+00:00

My father has found a Russian language keyboard mapping that he really likes here

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My father has found a Russian language keyboard mapping that he really likes here. However, it is non-standard and therefore is not one that appears in the Languages (Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Languages->Details->Text Services And Input Languages->Add) dropdown for keyboard layout selection. To my understanding, it should be a simple task to create a new mapping – perhaps editing an XML file and a reboot. Does anyone know how to do this?

Barring that, how would I go about writing a program to emulate this? It seems like it would have to run in the system tray (I can figure that out), have a hook intercepting incoming keyboard input (no idea how to do this), convert it off a configuration file, and send it to whatever application and text window has current focus (again, no idea). With any luck this should not be too hard.

Any advice?

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  1. There’s this utility from Microsoft

    The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) extends the international functionality of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,and Windows Vistas systems by allowing users to:

    • Create new keyboard layouts from scratch
    • Base a new layout on an existing one
    • Modify an existing keyboard layout and build a new layout from it
    • Multilingual input locales within edit control fields.
    • Build keyboard layout DLLs for x86, x64, and IA64 platforms.
    • Package the resulting keyboard layouts for subsequent delivery and installation.
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