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What does happen when one switch keyboard layout (alt+shift in Windows) for e.g. from en to pl. Does it change the charset from english to polish or maybe encoding? Why when for e.g. setting it to en gives an ø character while setting it to pl gives ł?

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Switching keyboard layout (alt+shift in Windows) leads to switching between keyboard functional layouts.

A particular keyboard functional layout provides mapping between scancodes from a physical key (or a key combination) and some software events, e.g.

  • e: the letter “e” appears on the screen;
  • shift+e: the letter “E” appears on the screen;
  • alt+shift: circulates through installed keyboard layouts/languages/input methods;
  • ctrl+shift+Esc launches Windows Task manager;
  • etc.

Another example:

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