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My product on Windows XP is beginnig the task of supporting on screen keyboard layouts for more than English. Is there a way of presenting a keyboard in a specific language without having to invent the wheel - ie like knowing every dead key charater combination for every key for every language? Is their software out there that does this already?

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  • The On-Screen keyboard that comes with Windows? Windows has a notion of keyboard layout, there should be API for accessing these data. (There are available several layouts for English, some other languages also have more than one.) – Alexey Ivanov Apr 22 '11 at 20:33
  • Isn't it a bad design decision to cover a task in an app while the OS already coovers exactly that task nicely? Sure there is an API for figuring out the keyboard layout etc. -- but isn't the onscreen keyboard of Windows' useful enough? What if there is some keyboard manufacturer delivering a totally strange keyboard, and that keyboard manufacturer provides his own onscreen keyboard, possibly replacing the XP one completely -- would you want to have to get active and support that exotic layout, too? Probably not?!? – TheBlastOne Apr 29 '11 at 16:00

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If you really want to go this route, this might help:

How to write an localized on-screen-keyboard

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