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Using keyboard layouts in Windows 10.0.27729.1000

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The entered characters are as follows:

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U+002840(LEFT PARENTHESISC0 Controls and Basic Latin (Basic Latin)\u0028(%28

System layouts

This text can be typed on 21 system layouts out of 217:

ADLaM
Arabic (101)
Arabic (102)
Central Kurdish
Divehi Phonetic
Divehi Typewriter
Hebrew
Hebrew (Standard)
Hebrew (Standard, 2018)
Pashto (Afghanistan)
Persian
Persian (Standard)
Syriac
Syriac Phonetic
Urdu
Uyghur
Uyghur (Legacy)
SHIFT+0
French (Standard, BÉPO)4
Spanish VariationSHIFT+4
Arabic (102) AZERTY
Belgian (Comma)
Belgian (Period)
Belgian French
Central Atlas Tamazight
French (Legacy, AZERTY)
French (Standard, AZERTY)
Tifinagh (Basic)
Tifinagh (Extended)
Wolof
5
Armenian Eastern (Legacy)
Armenian Western (Legacy)
Bosnian (Cyrillic)
Danish
Dutch
Estonian
Faeroese
Finnish
Finnish with Sami
German
German (IBM)
German Extended (E1)
German Extended (E2)
Greek (220)
Greek (220) Latin
Greek (319)
Greek (319) Latin
Greenlandic
Guarani
Hungarian
Hungarian 101-key
Icelandic
Italian
Italian (142)
Latin American
Luxembourgish
Norwegian
Norwegian with Sami
Polish (214)
Portuguese
Romanian (Legacy)
Sami Extended Finland-Sweden
Sami Extended Norway
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Latin)
Slovenian
Sorbian Extended
Sorbian Standard
Sorbian Standard (Legacy)
Spanish
Standard
Swedish
Swedish with Sami
Swiss French
Swiss German
Turkish F
Turkish Q
SHIFT+8
Georgian (Ergonomic)
Georgian (Old Alphabets)
Lithuanian IBM
Lithuanian Standard
9
Albanian
Armenian Typewriter
Assamese - INSCRIPT
Azerbaijani (Standard)
Azerbaijani Cyrillic
Azerbaijani Latin
Bangla
Bangla - INSCRIPT
Bangla - INSCRIPT (Legacy)
Bashkir
Belarusian
Buginese
Bulgarian (Latin)
Bulgarian (Phonetic Traditional)
Bulgarian (Phonetic)
Canadian French
Canadian French (Legacy)
Canadian Multilingual Standard
Colemak
Czech Programmers
Devanagari - INSCRIPT
English (India)
Georgian (MES)
Georgian (QWERTY)
Gothic
Greek
Greek Latin
Greek Polytonic
Gujarati
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hindi Traditional
Cherokee Nation
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 - Naqittaut
Irish
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Khmer (NIDA)
Korean
Kyrgyz Cyrillic
Latvian
Latvian (QWERTY)
Latvian (Standard)
Lisu (Basic)
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Macedonian - Standard
Malayalam
Maltese 47-Key
Maltese 48-Key
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian (Mongolian Script)
Myanmar (Phonetic order)
Myanmar (Visual order)
N’Ko
NZ Aotearoa
Odia
Osage
Osmanya
Phags-pa
Polish (Programmers)
Portuguese (Brazil ABNT)
Portuguese (Brazil ABNT2)
Punjabi
Romanian (Programmers)
Romanian (Standard)
Russian
Russian - Mnemonic
Sakha
Scottish Gaelic
Sesotho sa Leboa
Setswana
Sinhala
Sinhala - Wij 9
Sora
Tajik
Tamil 99
Tamil Anjal
Tatar
Tatar (Legacy)
Telugu
Thai Pattachote
Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock)
Traditional Mongolian (MNS)
Traditional Mongolian (Standard)
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Ukrainian (Enhanced)
United Kingdom
United Kingdom Extended
United States-Dvorak
United States-Dvorak for left hand
United States-Dvorak for right hand
United States-International
US
US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L
Uzbek Cyrillic
Yoruba
SHIFT+9
Inuktitut - NattilikSHIFTCAPITAL+9
Czech (QWERTY)CONTROLMENU+9
Armenian Phonetic
Vietnamese
SHIFTCONTROLMENU+9
Lisu (Standard)SHIFT+D
Inuktitut - LatinSHIFTCAPITAL+G
KhmerCONTROLMENU+N
LaoSHIFT+X
Thai Kedmanee
Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock)
SHIFT+Z
NepaliOEM MINUS
Bulgarian
Kazakh
OEM 3
DzongkhaCONTROLMENU+OEM 4
Bulgarian (Typewriter)
Georgian (Legacy)
OEM 5
Russian (Typewriter)SHIFT+OEM 5
Czech
Slovak
Slovak (QWERTY)
SHIFT+OEM 6

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
SHIFT+8
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+9

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
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
Polski 2021 podstawowy QWERTY Keyboard Layout
Polski 2021 podstawowy QWERTZ Keyboard Layout
Polski 2021 rozszerzony QWERTY Keyboard Layout
Polski 2021 rozszerzony QWERTZ 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+8
Brahmi - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout
Grantha - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout
Hungarian (Programmers) Keyboard Layout
Chakma - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout
Latin NFC - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout
Palmyrene – Mnemonic Keyboard Layout
Sinhala Addendum Layout Keyboard Layout
SuperIPA Keyboard Layout
SuperLatin Keyboard Layout
SuperSymbol Keyboard Layout
Ukrainian - Unicode 2.1 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
Русская (Типографская раскладка Ильи Бир Keyboard Layout
SHIFT+9
Czech Extended Chess Keyboard LayoutSHIFT+OEM 6

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: