Language box
Some keys and values under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout
define which languages and keyboard layouts can be chosen in the language box.
The following language box shows three languages and two keyboard layouts:
In the following configuration, there are three values shown in hexadecimal: 409, 807 and 809:
As per
language id mappings, these values represent:
- 409: English (United States)
- 807: German (Switzerland)
- 809: English (United Kingdom).
The respective keyboard layout for those languages is assigned in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes
. Here, it contains the following two mappings: 807 -> 409 and 809 -> 407. As per
the same table, this maps the language
German (Switzerland) (807) to the keyboard layout
English (US) (409) and
English (UK) (809) to the layout
German (Germany) (407).