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To create a page in a module other than user32, prefix the name with the module name and a period.
or you can use this approach (see also the sample code below)
[DllImport("user32")]
public static extern bool GetKeyboardLayoutName(IntPtr pwszKLID);
User-Defined Types:
None.
Notes:
None.
Tips & Tricks:
Please add some!
Sample Code:
[DllImport("user32")]
public static extern bool GetKeyboardLayoutName(IntPtr pwszKLID);
System.Text.StringBuilder locale = new System.Text.StringBuilder(new string(' ', 256));
int length;
string keyboardLanguage;
length = GetKeyboardLayoutName(locale);
keyboardLanguage = locale.ToString().Substring(0, length);
Alternative Managed API:
Do you know one? Please contribute it!
Mapping of all keyboard layout IDs on Windows 7 to their respective names
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Input;
namespace DesktopDictation.DeviceButtonMappings
{
public class KeyboardLayout
{
const int KL_NAMELENGTH = 9;
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern long GetKeyboardLayoutName(StringBuilder pwszKLID);
public static string GetLayoutCode()
{
var name = new StringBuilder(KL_NAMELENGTH);
GetKeyboardLayoutName(name);
return name.ToString();
}
public static String MapLayoutName(string code = null)
{
if (code == null)
code = GetLayoutCode();
switch (code)
{
case "0000041C":
return "Albanian";
case "00000401":
return "Arabic (101)";
case "00010401":
return "Arabic (102)";
case "00020401":
return "Arabic (102) Azerty";
case "0000042B":
return "Armenian eastern";
case "0001042B":
return "Armenian Western";
case "0000044D":
return "Assamese - inscript";
case "0000082C":
return "Azeri Cyrillic";
case "0000042C":
return "Azeri Latin";
case "0000046D":
return "Bashkir";
case "00000423":
return "Belarusian";
case "0000080C":
return "Belgian French";
case "00000813":
return "Belgian (period)";
case "0001080C":
return "Belgian (comma)";
case "00000445":
return "Bengali";
case "00010445":
return "Bengali - inscript (legacy)";
case "00020445":
return "Bengali - inscript";
case "0000201A":
return "Bosnian (cyrillic)";
case "00030402":
return "Bulgarian";
case "00000402":
return "Bulgarian(typewriter)";
case "00010402":
return "Bulgarian (latin)";
case "00020402":
return "Bulgarian (phonetic)";
case "00040402":
return "Bulgarian (phonetic traditional)";
case "00011009":
return "Canada Multilingual";
case "00001009":
return "Canada French";
case "00000C0C":
return "Canada French (legacy)";
case "00000404":
return "Chinese (traditional) - us keyboard";
case "00000804":
return "Chinese (simplified) -us keyboard";
case "00000C04":
return "Chinese (traditional, hong kong s.a.r.) - us keyboard";
case "00001004":
return "Chinese (simplified, singapore) - us keyboard";
case "00001404":
return "Chinese (traditional, macao s.a.r.) - us keyboard";
case "00000405":
return "Czech";
case "00020405":
return "Czech programmers";
case "00010405":
return "Czech (qwerty)";
case "0000041A":
return "Croatian";
case "00000439":
return "Deanagari - inscript";
case "00000406":
return "Danish";
case "00000465":
return "Divehi phonetic";
case "00010465":
return "Divehi typewriter";
case "00000413":
return "Dutch";
case "00000425":
return "Estonian";
case "00000438":
return "Faeroese";
case "0000040B":
return "Finnish";
case "0001083B":
return "Finnish with sami";
case "0000040C":
return "French";
case "00011809":
return "Gaelic";
case "00000437":
return "Georgian";
case "00020437":
return "Georgian (ergonomic)";
case "00010437":
return "Georgian (qwerty)";
case "00000407":
return "German";
case "00010407":
return "German (ibm)";
case "0000046F":
return "Greenlandic";
case "00000468":
return "Hausa";
case "0000040D":
return "Hebrew";
case "00010439":
return "Hindi traditional";
case "00000408":
return "Greek";
case "00010408":
return "Greek (220)";
case "00030408":
return "Greek (220) latin";
case "00020408":
return "Greek (319)";
case "00040408":
return "Greek (319) latin";
case "00050408":
return "Greek latin";
case "00060408":
return "Greek polyonic";
case "00000447":
return "Gujarati";
case "0000040E":
return "Hungarian";
case "0001040E":
return "Hungarian 101 key";
case "0000040F":
return "Icelandic";
case "00000470":
return "Igbo";
case "0000085D":
return "Inuktitut - latin";
case "0001045D":
return "Inuktitut - naqittaut";
case "00001809":
return "Irish";
case "00000410":
return "Italian";
case "00010410":
return "Italian (142)";
case "00000411":
return "Japanese";
case "0000044B":
return "Kannada";
case "0000043F":
return "Kazakh";
case "00000453":
return "Khmer";
case "00000412":
return "Korean";
case "00000440":
return "Kyrgyz cyrillic";
case "00000454":
return "Lao";
case "0000080A":
return "Latin america";
case "00000426":
return "Latvian";
case "00010426":
return "Latvian (qwerty)";
case "00010427":
return "Lithuanian";
case "00000427":
return "Lithuanian ibm";
case "00020427":
return "Lithuanian standard";
case "0000046E":
return "Luxembourgish";
case "0000042F":
return "Macedonian (fyrom)";
case "0001042F":
return "Macedonian (fyrom) - standard";
case "0000044C":
return "Malayalam";
case "0000043A":
return "Maltese 47-key";
case "0001043A":
return "Maltese 48-key";
case "0000044E":
return "Marathi";
case "00000481":
return "Maroi";
case "00000450":
return "Mongolian cyrillic";
case "00000850":
return "Mongolian (mongolian script)";
case "00000461":
return "Nepali";
case "00000414":
return "Norwegian";
case "0000043B":
return "Norwegian with sami";
case "00000448":
return "Oriya";
case "00000463":
return "Pashto (afghanistan)";
case "00000429":
return "Persian";
case "00000415":
return "Polish (programmers)";
case "00010415":
return "Polish (214)";
case "00000816":
return "Portuguese";
case "00000416":
return "Portuguese (brazillian abnt)";
case "00010416":
return "Portuguese (brazillian abnt2)";
case "00000446":
return "Punjabi";
case "00010418":
return "Romanian (standard)";
case "00000418":
return "Romanian (legacy)";
case "00020418":
return "Romanian (programmers)";
case "00000419":
return "Russian";
case "00010419":
return "Russian (typewriter)";
case "0002083B":
return "Sami extended finland-sweden";
case "0001043B":
return "Sami extended norway";
case "00000C1A":
return "Serbian (cyrillic)";
case "0000081A":
return "Serbian (latin)";
case "0000046C":
return "Sesotho sa Leboa";
case "00000432":
return "Setswana";
case "0000045B":
return "Sinhala";
case "0001045B":
return "Sinhala -Wij 9";
case "0000041B":
return "Slovak";
case "0001041B":
return "Slovak (qwerty)";
case "00000424":
return "Slovenian";
case "0001042E":
return "Sorbian extended";
case "0002042E":
return "Sorbian standard";
case "0000042E":
return "Sorbian standard (legacy)";
case "0000040A":
return "Spanish";
case "0001040A":
return "Spanish variation";
case "0000041D":
return "Swedish";
case "0000083B":
return "Swedish with sami";
case "00000807":
return "Swiss german";
case "0000100C":
return "Swiss french";
case "0000045A":
return "Syriac";
case "0001045A":
return "Syriac phonetic";
case "00000428":
return "Tajik";
case "00000449":
return "Tamil";
case "00000444":
return "Tatar";
case "0000044A":
return "Telugu";
case "0000041E":
return "Thai Kedmanee";
case "0002041E":
return "Thai Kedmanee (non-shiftlock)";
case "0001041E":
return "Thai Pattachote";
case "0003041E":
return "Thai Pattachote (non-shiftlock)";
case "00000451":
return "Tibetan (prc)";
case "0001041F":
return "Turkish F";
case "0000041F":
return "Turkish Q";
case "00000442":
return "Turkmen";
case "00000422":
return "Ukrainian";
case "00020422":
return "Ukrainian (enhanced)";
case "00000809":
return "United Kingdom";
case "00000452":
return "United Kingdom Extended";
case "00000409":
return "United States";
case "00010409":
return "United States - dvorak";
case "00030409":
return "United States - dvorak left hand";
case "00050409":
return "United States - dvorak right hand";
case "00004009":
return "United States - india";
case "00020409":
return "United States - international";
case "00000420":
return "Urdu";
case "00010480":
return "Uyghur";
case "00000480":
return "Uyghur (legacy)";
case "00000843":
return "Uzbek cyrillic";
case "0000042A":
return "Vietnamese";
case "00000485":
return "Yakut";
case "0000046A":
return "Yoruba";
case "00000488":
return "Wolof";
default:
return "unknown";
}
}
}
}
The GetKeyboardLayoutName API
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