Want to create your own language custom keyboard?

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If you are interested in gettingoutput for other languages from a US English keyboard layout, here is a solution that you might try. Thanks to Sergei Alonichau on our team for pointing this out. A friend of his has used this to write in Cyrillic using a US English keyboard (e.g., so that the Cyrillic character with a /b/ sound matches to the US English "b" key):

https://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx

As a side note (thanks, Thierry), Michael Kaplan’s blog includes a full section on this keyboard customization tool, with highly useful tips:

https://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/tags/Keyboards/default.aspx

-- Debbie Berkley (Test)