Keyboard Manager - possibility to differentiate between keyboard layouts

[dulakm]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Current behavior is:

Will remapping work if I change my input language?
Yes it will. Right now if you remap A to B on English (US) keyboard and then change the language setting to French, typing A on the French keyboard (Q on the English US physical keyboard) would result in B, this is consistent with how Windows handles multilingual input.

However I propose to make this configurable. There could be a switcher in settings to turn on/off whether remapping are only local, for the current keyboard setup, or global. For the reason, see the next point.

Scenario when this would be used?

During my day, I have to constantly switch between my Slovak and English keyboard layout as one I use in communication and the second when developing.

It could be easily solved by PowerToys - I'd simply remap few keys and shortcuts (e.g. ``` or ;) and keep using Slovak keyboard.

However sometimes I really do want to switch my keyboard but now my English layout is broken as my "Slovak fixes" affect English layout as well.

Supporting information

No response

[mnymic]

This looks related https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/14850

[TheJoeFin]

/dup #33774

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