Keyboard identifiers and input method editors for Windows
Use keyboard identifiers and input method editors (IMEs) to identify the keyboard type.
Keyboard identifiers
The following table lists keyboard identifiers that are available for Windows. You can also install support for additional keyboard types. The valid keyboards that can be configured for your device are listed in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts registry key.
| Keyboard | Keyboard identifier (hexadecimal) |
|---|---|
| ADLaM | 0x00140c00 |
| Albanian | 0x0000041c |
| Arabic (101) | 0x00000401 |
| Arabic (102) | 0x00010401 |
| Arabic (102) AZERTY | 0x00020401 |
| Armenian Eastern (Legacy) | 0x0000042b |
| Armenian Phonetic | 0x0002042b |
| Armenian Typewriter | 0x0003042b |
| Armenian Western (Legacy) | 0x0001042b |
| Assamese - INSCRIPT | 0x0000044d |
| Azerbaijani (Standard) | 0x0001042c |
| Azerbaijani Cyrillic | 0x0000082c |
| Azerbaijani Latin | 0x0000042c |
| Bangla | 0x00000445 |
| Bangla - INSCRIPT | 0x00020445 |
| Bangla - INSCRIPT (Legacy) | 0x00010445 |
| Bashkir | 0x0000046d |
| Belarusian | 0x00000423 |
| Belgian (Comma) | 0x0001080c |
| Belgian (Period) | 0x00000813 |
| Belgian French | 0x0000080c |
| Bosnian (Cyrillic) | 0x0000201a |
| Buginese | 0x000b0c00 |
| Bulgarian | 0x00030402 |
| Bulgarian (Latin) | 0x00010402 |
| Bulgarian (Phonetic Traditional) | 0x00040402 |
| Bulgarian (Phonetic) | 0x00020402 |
| Bulgarian (Typewriter) | 0x00000402 |
| Canadian French | 0x00001009 |
| Canadian French (Legacy) | 0x00000c0c |
| Canadian Multilingual Standard | 0x00011009 |
| Central Atlas Tamazight | 0x0000085f |
| Central Kurdish | 0x00000492 |
| Cherokee Nation | 0x0000045c |
| Cherokee Phonetic | 0x0001045c |
| Chinese (Simplified) - US | 0x00000804 |
| Chinese (Simplified, Singapore) - US | 0x00001004 |
| Chinese (Traditional) - US | 0x00000404 |
| Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong S.A.R.) - US | 0x00000c04 |
| Chinese (Traditional, Macao S.A.R.) - US | 0x00001404 |
| Czech | 0x00000405 |
| Czech (QWERTY) | 0x00010405 |
| Czech Programmers | 0x00020405 |
| Danish | 0x00000406 |
| Devanagari - INSCRIPT | 0x00000439 |
| Divehi Phonetic | 0x00000465 |
| Divehi Typewriter | 0x00010465 |
| Dutch | 0x00000413 |
| Dzongkha | 0x00000C51 |
| English (India) | 0x00004009 |
| Estonian | 0x00000425 |
| Faeroese | 0x00000438 |
| Finnish | 0x0000040b |
| Finnish with Sami | 0x0001083b |
| French | 0x0000040c |
| Futhark | 0x00120c00 |
| Georgian (Ergonomic) | 0x00020437 |
| Georgian (Legacy) | 0x00000437 |
| Georgian (MES) | 0x00030437 |
| Georgian (Old Alphabets) | 0x00040437 |
| Georgian (QWERTY) | 0x00010437 |
| German | 0x00000407 |
| German (IBM) | 0x00010407 |
| Gothic | 0x000c0c00 |
| Greek | 0x00000408 |
| Greek (220) | 0x00010408 |
| Greek (220) Latin | 0x00030408 |
| Greek (319) | 0x00020408 |
| Greek (319) Latin | 0x00040408 |
| Greek Latin | 0x00050408 |
| Greek Polytonic | 0x00060408 |
| Greenlandic | 0x0000046f |
| Guarani | 0x00000474 |
| Gujarati | 0x00000447 |
| Hausa | 0x00000468 |
| Hawaiian | 0x00000475 |
| Hebrew | 0x0000040d |
| Hebrew (Standard) | 0x0002040d |
| Hindi Traditional | 0x00010439 |
| Hungarian | 0x0000040e |
| Hungarian 101-key | 0x0001040e |
| Icelandic | 0x0000040f |
| Igbo | 0x00000470 |
| Inuktitut - Latin | 0x0000085d |
| Inuktitut - Naqittaut | 0x0001045d |
| Irish | 0x00001809 |
| Italian | 0x00000410 |
| Italian (142) | 0x00010410 |
| Japanese | 0x00000411 |
| Javanese | 0x00110c00 |
| Kannada | 0x0000044b |
| Kazakh | 0x0000043f |
| Khmer | 0x00000453 |
| Khmer (NIDA) | 0x00010453 |
| Korean | 0x00000412 |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | 0x00000440 |
| Lao | 0x00000454 |
| Latin American | 0x0000080a |
| Latvian | 0x00000426 |
| Latvian (QWERTY) | 0x00010426 |
| Latvian (Standard) | 0x00020426 |
| Lisu (Basic) | 0x00070c00 |
| Lisu (Standard) | 0x00080c00 |
| Lithuanian | 0x00010427 |
| Lithuanian IBM | 0x00000427 |
| Lithuanian Standard | 0x00020427 |
| Luxembourgish | 0x0000046e |
| Macedonian | 0x0000042f |
| Macedonian - Standard | 0x0001042f |
| Malayalam | 0x0000044c |
| Maltese 47-Key | 0x0000043a |
| Maltese 48-Key | 0x0001043a |
| Maori | 0x00000481 |
| Marathi | 0x0000044e |
| Mongolian (Mongolian Script) | 0x00000850 |
| Mongolian Cyrillic | 0x00000450 |
| Myanmar (Phonetic order) | 0x00010c00 |
| Myanmar (Visual order) | 0x00130c00 |
| NZ Aotearoa | 0x00001409 |
| Nepali | 0x00000461 |
| New Tai Lue | 0x00020c00 |
| Norwegian | 0x00000414 |
| Norwegian with Sami | 0x0000043b |
| N'Ko | 0x00090c00 |
| Odia | 0x00000448 |
| Ogham | 0x00040c00 |
| Ol Chiki | 0x000d0c00 |
| Old Italic | 0x000f0c00 |
| Osage | 0x00150c00 |
| Osmanya | 0x000e0c00 |
| Pashto (Afghanistan) | 0x00000463 |
| Persian | 0x00000429 |
| Persian (Standard) | 0x00050429 |
| Phags-pa | 0x000a0c00 |
| Polish (214) | 0x00010415 |
| Polish (Programmers) | 0x00000415 |
| Portuguese | 0x00000816 |
| Portuguese (Brazil ABNT) | 0x00000416 |
| Portuguese (Brazil ABNT2) | 0x00010416 |
| Punjabi | 0x00000446 |
| Romanian (Legacy) | 0x00000418 |
| Romanian (Programmers) | 0x00020418 |
| Romanian (Standard) | 0x00010418 |
| Russian | 0x00000419 |
| Russian (Typewriter) | 0x00010419 |
| Russian - Mnemonic | 0x00020419 |
| Sakha | 0x00000485 |
| Sami Extended Finland-Sweden | 0x0002083b |
| Sami Extended Norway | 0x0001043b |
| Scottish Gaelic | 0x00011809 |
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | 0x00000c1a |
| Serbian (Latin) | 0x0000081a |
| Sesotho sa Leboa | 0x0000046c |
| Setswana | 0x00000432 |
| Sinhala | 0x0000045b |
| Sinhala - Wij 9 | 0x0001045b |
| Slovak | 0x0000041b |
| Slovak (QWERTY) | 0x0001041b |
| Slovenian | 0x00000424 |
| Sora | 0x00100c00 |
| Sorbian Extended | 0x0001042e |
| Sorbian Standard | 0x0002042e |
| Sorbian Standard (Legacy) | 0x0000042e |
| Spanish | 0x0000040a |
| Spanish Variation | 0x0001040a |
| Standard | 0x0000041a |
| Swedish | 0x0000041d |
| Swedish with Sami | 0x0000083b |
| Swiss French | 0x0000100c |
| Swiss German | 0x00000807 |
| Syriac | 0x0000045a |
| Syriac Phonetic | 0x0001045a |
| Tai Le | 0x00030c00 |
| Tajik | 0x00000428 |
| Tamil | 0x00000449 |
| Tamil 99 | 0x00020449 |
| Tamil Anjal | 0x00030449 |
| Tatar | 0x00010444 |
| Tatar (Legacy) | 0x00000444 |
| Telugu | 0x0000044a |
| Thai Kedmanee | 0x0000041e |
| Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) | 0x0002041e |
| Thai Pattachote | 0x0001041e |
| Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) | 0x0003041e |
| Tibetan (PRC) | 0x00000451 |
| Tibetan (PRC) - Updated | 0x00010451 |
| Tifinagh (Basic) | 0x0000105f |
| Tifinagh (Extended) | 0x0001105f |
| Traditional Mongolian (Standard) | 0x00010850 |
| Turkish F | 0x0001041f |
| Turkish Q | 0x0000041f |
| Turkmen | 0x00000442 |
| US | 0x00000409 |
| US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L | 0x00050409 |
| Ukrainian | 0x00000422 |
| Ukrainian (Enhanced) | 0x00020422 |
| United Kingdom | 0x00000809 |
| United Kingdom Extended | 0x00000452 |
| United States-Dvorak | 0x00010409 |
| United States-Dvorak for left hand | 0x00030409 |
| United States-Dvorak for right hand | 0x00040409 |
| United States-International | 0x00020409 |
| Urdu | 0x00000420 |
| Uyghur | 0x00010480 |
| Uyghur (Legacy) | 0x00000480 |
| Uzbek Cyrillic | 0x00000843 |
| Vietnamese | 0x0000042a |
| Wolof | 0x00000488 |
| Yoruba | 0x0000046a |
Input method editors
| Language/Region | Input profile (Language and keyboard pair) |
|---|---|
| Amharic - Ethiopia | am-ET: Amharic Input Method 2 045e:{7C472071-36A7-4709-88CC-859513E583A9}{9A4E8FC7-76BF-4A63-980D-FADDADF7E987} |
| Bengali - India | bn-IN: Bangla Phonetic 0445:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{C7F2F349-36A2-4F2E-977B-5C18BAF1AE7D} |
| Chinese (Simplified) - China | zh-CN: Microsoft Wubi 0804:{6A498709-E00B-4C45-A018-8F9E4081AE40}{82590C13-F4DD-44F4-BA1D-8667246FDF8E} |
| Chinese (Simplified) - China | zh-CN: Microsoft Pinyin 0804:{81D4E9C9-1D3B-41BC-9E6C-4B40BF79E35E}{FA550B04-5AD7-411F-A5AC-CA038EC515D7} |
| Chinese (Traditional) - Taiwan | zh-TW: Microsoft Changjie 0404:{531FDEBF-9B4C-4A43-A2AA-960E8FCDC732}{4BDF9F03-C7D3-11D4-B2AB-0080C882687E} |
| Chinese (Traditional) - Taiwan | zh-TW: Microsoft Quick 0404:{531FDEBF-9B4C-4A43-A2AA-960E8FCDC732}{6024B45F-5C54-11D4-B921-0080C882687E} |
| Chinese (Traditional) - Taiwan | zh-TW: Microsoft Bopomofo 0404:{B115690A-EA02-48D5-A231-E3578D2FDF80}{B2F9C502-1742-11D4-9790-0080C882687E} |
| Chinese (Traditional) - Taiwan | zh-TW: Chinese Traditional DaYi 0404:{E429B25A-E5D3-4D1F-9BE3-0C608477E3A1}{037B2C25-480C-4D7F-B027-D6CA6B69788A} |
| Chinese (Traditional) - Taiwan | zh-TW: Chinese Traditional Array 0404:{E429B25A-E5D3-4D1F-9BE3-0C608477E3A1}{D38EFF65-AA46-4FD5-91A7-67845FB02F5B} |
| Gujarati - India | gu-IN: Gujarati Phonetic 0447:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{CDB41983-C911-4685-98CC-FC720BBF8FC8} |
| Hindi - India | hi-IN: Hindi Phonetic 0439:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{26FA8EBD-97DB-4F65-BF35-5E219EBD0079} |
| Japanese - Japan | ja-JP: Microsoft IME 0411:{03B5835F-F03C-411B-9CE2-AA23E1171E36}{A76C93D9-5523-4E90-AAFA-4DB112F9AC76} |
| Kannada - India | kn-IN: Kannada Phonetic 044b:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{0F420707-90F7-4E1B-B9F2-91FF3CA9D990} |
| Korean - Korea | ko-KR: Microsoft IME 0412:{A028AE76-01B1-46C2-99C4-ACD9858AE02F}{B5FE1F02-D5F2-4445-9C03-C568F23C99A1} |
| Korean - Korea | ko-KR: Microsoft Old Hangul IME 0412:{A1E2B86B-924A-4D43-80F6-8A820DF7190F}{B60AF051-257A-46BC-B9D3-84DAD819BAFB} |
| Malayalam - India | ml-IN: Malayalam Phonetic 044c:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{6346F0DC-2FE4-40E6-99D5-7362723C3780} |
| Marathi - India | mr-IN: Marathi Phonetic 044e:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{DBEB227A-4EF6-45A6-85B5-B1A03D95BB66} |
| Nepali - Nepal | ne-NP: Nepali Phonetic 0461:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{7912A487-286C-4825-A608-F676C630B733} |
| Odia - India | or-IN: Odia Phonetic 0448:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{607EBD43-EA66-4CAC-A0B1-40F1D147364B} |
| Punjabi - India | pa-IN: Punjabi Phonetic 0446:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{59139512-9763-4E5D-B8E5-0AC1C3BAE1AE} |
| Tamil - India | ta-IN: Tamil Anjal 0449:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{02E8FC61-6A42-4749-8124-68E28105C20E} |
| Tamil - India | ta-IN: Tamil Phonetic 0449:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{045CBA61-4228-4F62-AC0C-F725470D7BFC} |
| Tamil - Sri Lanka | ta-LK: Tamil Anjal 0849:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{02E8FC61-6A42-4749-8124-68E28105C20E} |
| Telugu - India | te-IN: Telugu Phonetic 044a:{81EA0A17-AA39-455B-BA20-EA79A8F98966}{9F0CDC2B-12B2-4776-A144-F79901A9F8DA} |
| Tigrinya - Ethiopia | ti-ET: Tigrinya Input Method 0473:{E429B25A-E5D3-4D1F-9BE3-0C608477E3A1}{3CAB88B7-CC3E-46A6-9765-B772AD7761FF} |
| Vietnamese - Vietnam | vi-VN: Vietnamese Number Key-Based 042a:{C2CB2CF0-AF47-413E-9780-8BC3A3C16068}{591AE943-56BE-48F6-8966-06B43915CC5A} |
| Vietnamese - Vietnam | vi-VN: Vietnamese Telex 042a:{C2CB2CF0-AF47-413E-9780-8BC3A3C16068}{5FB02EC5-0A77-4684-B4FA-DEF8A2195628} |
| Yi - China | ii-CN: Yi Input Method 0478:{E429B25A-E5D3-4D1F-9BE3-0C608477E3A1}{409C8376-007B-4357-AE8E-26316EE3FB0D} |