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Pass keyboard layout down to ConPTY and consider readding support for GetConsoleKeyboardLayoutName #18160

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lhecker opened this issue Nov 6, 2024 · 0 comments
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Pass keyboard layout down to ConPTY and consider readding support for GetConsoleKeyboardLayoutName #18160

lhecker opened this issue Nov 6, 2024 · 0 comments
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Area-Server Down in the muck of API call servicing, interprocess communication, eventing, etc. Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Product-Conhost For issues in the Console codebase Product-Conpty For console issues specifically related to conpty
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lhecker commented Nov 6, 2024

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To help PowerShell with their ToUnicode usage we should pass down the keyboard layout to ConPTY so that their keyboard-layout hack works:
https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/blob/e87a265ef8d2c6c5498500deb155bf6258b34629/PSReadLine/PlatformWindows.cs#L1106-L1109

To avoid the need for such a workaround, we should readd support for the existing GetConsoleKeyboardLayoutName function. There's not really a good reason to not support it. It's also used by vim and probably others so it may be quite helpful.

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@lhecker lhecker added Area-Server Down in the muck of API call servicing, interprocess communication, eventing, etc. Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Product-Conhost For issues in the Console codebase Product-Conpty For console issues specifically related to conpty labels Nov 6, 2024
@lhecker lhecker added this to the Backlog milestone Nov 6, 2024
@microsoft-github-policy-service microsoft-github-policy-service bot added the Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting label Nov 6, 2024
@carlos-zamora carlos-zamora removed the Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting label Nov 13, 2024
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