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The entered characters are as follows:

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U+003A58:COLONC0 Controls and Basic Latin (Basic Latin)\u003a:%3A

System layouts

This text can be typed on 23 system layouts out of 217:

Sakha0
Armenian Eastern (Legacy)
Armenian Western (Legacy)
1
Lithuanian IBM
Lithuanian Standard
Mongolian Cyrillic
Russian (Typewriter)
5
Bashkir
Georgian (Ergonomic)
Georgian (Legacy)
Georgian (Old Alphabets)
6
Azerbaijani (Standard)
Azerbaijani Cyrillic
Azerbaijani Latin
Belarusian
Kyrgyz Cyrillic
Russian
Russian - Mnemonic
Tajik
Tatar
Tatar (Legacy)
Ukrainian
Ukrainian (Enhanced)
Uzbek Cyrillic
SHIFT+6
Bulgarian
Bulgarian (Typewriter)
Kazakh
SHIFT+7
LatvianCONTROLMENU+8
LaoSHIFT+G
Tamil 99SHIFT+L
Greek
Greek (220)
SHIFT+Q
Divehi TypewriterSHIFT+T
Gothic
Old Italic
OEM 1
ADLaM
Arabic (101)
Arabic (102)
Arabic (102) AZERTY
Buginese
Bulgarian (Latin)
Bulgarian (Phonetic Traditional)
Bulgarian (Phonetic)
Canadian French
Canadian French (Legacy)
Canadian Multilingual Standard
Central Kurdish
Colemak
Czech Programmers
Divehi Phonetic
English (India)
Georgian (MES)
Georgian (QWERTY)
Greek Latin
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hebrew (Standard)
Hebrew (Standard, 2018)
Cherokee Phonetic
Chinese (Simplified) - US
Chinese (Simplified, Singapore) - US
Chinese (Traditional) - US
Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong S.A.R.) - US
Chinese (Traditional, Macao S.A.R.) - US
Igbo
Inuktitut - Latin
Inuktitut - Naqittaut
Inuktitut - Nattilik
Irish
Japanese
Korean
Latvian (QWERTY)
Latvian (Standard)
Lithuanian
Maltese 47-Key
Maltese 48-Key
Maori
N’Ko
NZ Aotearoa
Osage
Osmanya
Pashto (Afghanistan)
Persian
Persian (Standard)
Polish (Programmers)
Romanian (Programmers)
Scottish Gaelic
Sesotho sa Leboa
Setswana
Sora
Tamil Anjal
Traditional Mongolian (MNS)
Turkmen
United Kingdom
United Kingdom Extended
United States-Dvorak
United States-Dvorak for left hand
United States-Dvorak for right hand
United States-International
Urdu
US
US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L
Uyghur
Uyghur (Legacy)
Vietnamese
Yoruba
SHIFT+OEM 1
KhmerCONTROL+OEM 1
Armenian Phonetic
Czech (QWERTY)
Dzongkha
Hindi Traditional
Cherokee Nation
Marathi
Myanmar (Phonetic order)
Myanmar (Visual order)
Romanian (Standard)
SHIFTCONTROLMENU+OEM 1
Armenian TypewriterSHIFTCONTROLMENU+OEM PLUS
Tifinagh (Basic)
Tifinagh (Extended)
OEM PERIOD
Albanian
Bosnian (Cyrillic)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Estonian
Faeroese
Finnish
Finnish with Sami
French (Standard, BÉPO)
German
German (IBM)
German Extended (E1)
German Extended (E2)
Greek (220) Latin
Greek (319)
Greek (319) Latin
Greenlandic
Guarani
Hungarian
Hungarian 101-key
Icelandic
Italian
Italian (142)
Latin American
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Macedonian - Standard
Norwegian
Norwegian with Sami
Polish (214)
Portuguese
Romanian (Legacy)
Sami Extended Finland-Sweden
Sami Extended Norway
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Latin)
Slovak
Slovak (QWERTY)
Slovenian
Sorbian Extended
Sorbian Standard
Sorbian Standard (Legacy)
Spanish
Spanish Variation
Standard
Swedish
Swedish with Sami
Swiss French
Swiss German
Turkish F
Turkish Q
SHIFT+OEM PERIOD
Belgian (Comma)
Belgian (Period)
Belgian French
Central Atlas Tamazight
French (Legacy, AZERTY)
French (Standard, AZERTY)
Wolof
OEM 2
Portuguese (Brazil ABNT)
Portuguese (Brazil ABNT2)
SHIFT+OEM 2
Syriac
Syriac Phonetic
SHIFT+OEM 5
Sinhala
Sinhala - Wij 9
SHIFT+OEM 6
Greek PolytonicSHIFT+Q, SPACE

Unreferenced drivers

You can also use these unreferenced keyboard drivers:

JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for (NEC PC-9800 on PC98-NX)
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for (NEC PC-9800 Windows 95)
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for (NEC PC-9800)
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for 106
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for 106
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for IBM 5576-002/003
JP Japanese NEC PC-9800 Keyboard Layout
OEM 1
DEC LK411-AJ Keyboard Layout
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for 101
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for AX2
KO Hangeul Keyboard Layout for 101 (Type A)
KO Hangeul Keyboard Layout for 101(Type B)
KO Hangeul Keyboard Layout for 101(Type C)
KO Hangeul Keyboard Layout for 103
SHIFT+OEM 1

Custom layouts

You can also use these custom-made keyboard layouts:

Cyrylica Polski 2021 QWERTY Keyboard Layout
Cyrylica Polski 2021 QWERTY UA Keyboard Layout
Cyrylica Polski 2021 QWERTZ Keyboard Layout
Cyrylica Polski 2021 QWERTZ UA Keyboard Layout
Polski 2021 podstawowy QWERTY Keyboard Layout
Polski 2021 podstawowy QWERTZ Keyboard Layout
Polski 2021 rozszerzony QWERTY Keyboard Layout
Polski 2021 rozszerzony QWERTZ Keyboard Layout
SHIFT+3
Ukrainian - Unicode 2.1 Keyboard Layout
Русская (Типографская раскладка Ильи Бир Keyboard Layout
SHIFT+6
Hungarian (Programmers) Keyboard Layout
Sinhala Addendum Layout Keyboard Layout
SuperLatin Keyboard Layout
United Kingdom IndUni Keyboard Layout
US English ROT13 Keyboard Layout
US International Extended Keyboard Layout
US-International Scientific Keyboard Layout
Английская (Типографская раскладка Ильи Keyboard Layout
SHIFT+OEM 1
Czech Extended Chess Keyboard Layout
German Extended Keyboard Layout
German HTML-Programmer Keyboard Layout
German International Keyboard Layout
German UNZ 1 - Fraktur T Keyboard Layout
Italiano - Internazionale Keyboard Layout
Norsk kyrillisk Keyboard Layout
Norsk utvidet Juli2018 Keyboard Layout
Norwegian - CHESS Keyboard Layout
Nuovo Italiano Keyboard Layout
Teclado español extendido Keyboard Layout
Teclado iberoamericano español Keyboard Layout
Teclado iberoamericano português Keyboard Layout
Teclado latinoamericano rkgraqvqb Keyboard Layout
Teclado paraguayo Keyboard Layout
SHIFT+OEM PERIOD

Note that virtual keys are not always at the same place. For example, Q is next to the Tab key on US keyboard but next to the Caps Lock on French keyboard. You can click on each keyboard layout to find out how it defines the mapping.

Please note current limitations of the algorithm: