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Using keyboard layouts in Windows 10.0.27729.1000

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Use this page to find out how to type a character on given keyboard or how many keyboards contain given characters.

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The entered characters are as follows:

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U+002D45-HYPHEN-MINUSC0 Controls and Basic Latin (Basic Latin)\u002d-%2D

System layouts

This text can be typed on 14 system layouts out of 217:

Lithuanian Standard
Mongolian Cyrillic
Russian (Typewriter)
2
Armenian Typewriter
Thai Kedmanee
Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock)
3
Arabic (102) AZERTY
Armenian Eastern (Legacy)
Armenian Western (Legacy)
Central Atlas Tamazight
French (Legacy, AZERTY)
Tifinagh (Basic)
Tifinagh (Extended)
Wolof
6
French (Standard, BÉPO)8
Futhark
Greek Polytonic
Kazakh
Khmer (NIDA)
Lisu (Basic)
Lisu (Standard)
Mongolian (Mongolian Script)
Ogham
Ol Chiki
Old Italic
Phags-pa
Tajik
Tibetan (PRC)
Tibetan (PRC) - Updated
Traditional Mongolian (Standard)
Uzbek Cyrillic
SUBTRACT
ADLaM
Albanian
Arabic (101)
Arabic (102)
Armenian Phonetic
Assamese - INSCRIPT
Azerbaijani (Standard)
Azerbaijani Cyrillic
Azerbaijani Latin
Bangla
Bangla - INSCRIPT
Bangla - INSCRIPT (Legacy)
Bashkir
Belarusian
Belgian (Comma)
Belgian (Period)
Belgian French
Buginese
Bulgarian
Bulgarian (Latin)
Bulgarian (Phonetic Traditional)
Bulgarian (Typewriter)
Canadian French
Canadian French (Legacy)
Canadian Multilingual Standard
Central Kurdish
Colemak
Czech
Czech Programmers
Danish
Devanagari - INSCRIPT
Divehi Phonetic
Divehi Typewriter
Dutch
English (India)
Faeroese
Finnish
Finnish with Sami
French (Standard, AZERTY)
Georgian (Ergonomic)
Georgian (MES)
Georgian (Old Alphabets)
Georgian (QWERTY)
German
German (IBM)
German Extended (E1)
German Extended (E2)
Gothic
Greek
Greek (220)
Greek (220) Latin
Greek (319)
Greek (319) Latin
Greek Latin
Greenlandic
Guarani
Gujarati
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hebrew (Standard)
Hebrew (Standard, 2018)
Hindi Traditional
Hungarian
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
Irish
Italian
Italian (142)
Japanese
Kannada
Khmer
Korean
Kyrgyz Cyrillic
Latin American
Latvian
Latvian (QWERTY)
Latvian (Standard)
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malayalam
Maltese 47-Key
Maltese 48-Key
Maori
Marathi
Myanmar (Phonetic order)
Myanmar (Visual order)
N’Ko
Norwegian
Norwegian with Sami
NZ Aotearoa
Odia
Osage
Osmanya
Pashto (Afghanistan)
Persian
Persian (Standard)
Polish (214)
Polish (Programmers)
Portuguese
Portuguese (Brazil ABNT)
Portuguese (Brazil ABNT2)
Punjabi
Romanian (Programmers)
Romanian (Standard)
Russian
Russian - Mnemonic
Sakha
Sami Extended Finland-Sweden
Sami Extended Norway
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian (Latin)
Sesotho sa Leboa
Setswana
Sinhala
Sinhala - Wij 9
Slovak
Slovenian
Sora
Sorbian Extended
Sorbian Standard
Sorbian Standard (Legacy)
Spanish
Spanish Variation
Standard
Swedish
Swedish with Sami
Swiss French
Swiss German
Syriac
Syriac Phonetic
Tamil
Tamil 99
Tamil Anjal
Tatar
Tatar (Legacy)
Telugu
Traditional Mongolian (MNS)
Turkish F
Turkish Q
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
Urdu
US
US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L
Uyghur
Uyghur (Legacy)
Vietnamese
Yoruba
OEM MINUS
Georgian (Legacy)
Lithuanian IBM
New Tai Lue
Thai Pattachote
Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock)
SHIFT+OEM MINUS
Inuktitut - NattilikCAPITAL+OEM MINUS
NepaliSHIFTCONTROL+OEM MINUS
Czech (QWERTY)
Dzongkha
Cherokee Nation
Javanese
Tai Le
CONTROLMENU+OEM MINUS
Bosnian (Cyrillic)
Bulgarian (Phonetic)
Hungarian 101-key
Macedonian - Standard
Romanian (Legacy)
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Slovak (QWERTY)
OEM 2
IcelandicOEM 4
LaoSHIFT+OEM 4
EstonianOEM 6

Unreferenced drivers

You can also use these unreferenced keyboard drivers:

DEC LK411-AJ Keyboard Layout
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 101
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for 106
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for 106
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for AX2
JP Japanese Keyboard Layout for IBM 5576-002/003
JP Japanese NEC PC-9800 Keyboard Layout
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
OEM MINUS

Custom layouts

You can also use these custom-made keyboard layouts:

BRAILLE español Keyboard Layout
BRAILLE español-latinoamericano Keyboard Layout
SuperSymbol Keyboard Layout
SUBTRACT
Brahmi - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout
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
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
Grantha - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout
Hungarian (Programmers) Keyboard Layout
Chakma - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout
Latin NFC - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout
Norsk kyrillisk Keyboard Layout
Norsk utvidet Juli2018 Keyboard Layout
Norwegian - CHESS Keyboard Layout
Nuovo Italiano Keyboard Layout
Palmyrene – Mnemonic 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
Sinhala Addendum Layout Keyboard Layout
SuperIPA Keyboard Layout
SuperLatin 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
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
OEM MINUS
Italiano - Internazionale Keyboard LayoutCONTROLMENU+OEM 4

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: