International Keyboard Driver

Windows CE is typically controlled using a touch panel without the use of a keyboard. You can enter characters by either using handrecognition software or using the virtual keyboard. For a lot of applications, especially in the field of Thin Clients, it is desired to use a keyboard. Windows CE contains keyboard drivers for standard keyboard plugs or USB. Unfortunately Windows CE offers only US english, japanese or korean keyboard layouts. You have to decide which language should be used when you build the Windows CE image. Dynamically switching between different languages is not possible.

If you want to use a different local language, you have to modify one of the delivered keyboard drivers. This will take some time and it doesn't solve another problem: You can not switch back to english nor to any other language. Especially in Europe there are a lot of different countries with different languages living close together. Therefore most companies deliver their Windows CE devices without support for local keyboards.

With our international keyboard driver a Windows CE user has the possibility to dynamically select a local language in a Control Panel (menu "Settings").

The following keyboard layouts are supported for WindowsCE 4.0 and 4.1:

Albanian, Belarusian, Belgian French, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Canadian French (Legacy), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek Latin, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Irish, Latin American, Latvian (QWERTY), Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss (French), Swiss (German), Turkish F, Turkish Q, Ukrainian, United Kingdom, US English, US-International

The following keyboard layouts are supported for WindowsCE 4.2:

Albanian, Belarusian, Belgian French, Belgian Dutch, Bulgarian, Bulgarian (Latin), Canadian French, Canadian French (Legacy), Croatian, Czech, Czech (QWERTY), Czech Programmers, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, German (IBM), Greek, Greek (220) Latin, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Irish, Latin American, Latvian, Latvian (QWERTY), Lithuanian, Lithuanian IBM, Macedonian (FYROM), Norwegian, Polish (214), Polish (Programmers), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT), Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish Variation, Swedish, Swiss French, Swiss German, Turkish F, Turkish Q, Ukrainian, United Kingdom, US, United States-Dvorak, United States-International

The WindowsCE 5.0 version supports the same languages than the 4.2 version. In this version, we are using the builtin control panel "regional settings" to switch between languages.

Restrictions of the demo version:
Every 3 minutes a popup window will appear that reminds you that this is a demo version.

Localized Keyboard Drivers *
(8042 Keyboard Controller and NOP/Stub driver for USB Keyboard, fixed slow USB Mouse)

GERMAN.ZIP

German Keyboard Driver for Windows CE.NET 4.1
Swiss (German) Keyboard Driver for Windows CE.NET 4.1	SWISSGR.ZIP
Swiss (French) Keyboard Driver for Windows CE.NET 4.1	SWISSFR.ZIP
French Keyboard Driver for Windows CE.NET 4.1	FRENCH.ZIP
Italian Keyboard Driver for Windows CE.NET 4.1	ITALIAN.ZIP

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International keyboard driver with control panel available!

Installation Instructions	README.PDF
International Keyboard Driver for Windows CE.NET 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2	KBDINT.ZIP
International Keyboard Driver for Windows CE 5.0 (x86, ARMV4I)	KEYBOARD.MSI