Solved Input language settings problem

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Hi.
I need to be able to input text using three different languages: English (US), Russian, Ukrainian.
To that end I have prepared the following:
set1.png
As you see, UI is being overridden to Ukrainian too, which is also desired.
I also need to be able to switch input languages NOT using any cyclic shortcut like Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift, but by language-specific shortcut, namely Ctrl+1 for English, Ctrl+2 for Ukrainian, Ctrl+3 for Russian. It has been so for years for me and I got used to it.
To that end I found the following setup
set2.png
There you see two Ukrainian layouts (I made one myself, another one is built-in).

The problem is that Ctrl+1 for English works, Ctrl+3 for Russian works too, but BOTH shortcuts for Ukrainian layots do NOT work. When I press Ctrl+2 or Ctrl+4 just nothing happens. I tried to change the Ukrainian shortcuts to no avail.

What should I do?

UPD. What's more interesting thing I just discovered, is that these Ukrainian shortcuts do work selectively.
In Notepad and MS Word -- don't work
In Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox, also Skype -- does work.

UPD2. Shortcuts seem to be working everywhere EXCEPT the software written by Microsoft. What an irony :(
 
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Hi,

Did Ukrainian keyboard layouts come with Windows or were installed separately (e.g. had been created with the keyboard layout creator)?

In the latter case, try to remove them and replace with the standard Ukrainian layout, then assign the same shortcut. Does the shortcut work?
 

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Hi,
Did Ukrainian keyboard layouts come with Windows or were installed separately (e.g. had been created with the keyboard layout creator)?
As I said
I made one myself, another one is built-in
This means one Ukrainian layout came in with Windows, another one I made with MSKLC. Deleting either one does not solve the issue.

In the latter case, try to remove them and replace with the standard Ukrainian layout, then assign the same shortcut. Does the shortcut work?
No. MS Word and notepad still refuse to switch to Ukrainian when I press Ctrl+2. Other software works though.
 

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Sorry, I missed the built-in part. What happens in safe mode?

Another question. Switch with Win+Space to the built-in Ukrainian layout. Does the shortcut work with switching to another Ukrainian layout?
 

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I have a built in hot key utility.
It works good :
I'm sorry, how is that supposed to help in my problem?

I thought you might look on the internet & find a free hot key utility that would solve your problem.
I assumed you did not have a hot key program.
I assumed you were using Properties to set up hot keys that wouldn't work.

There are some good free hot key programs available that might help you with your issue.
 

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Sorry, I missed the built-in part. What happens in safe mode?
The same.

Another question. Switch with Win+Space to the built-in Ukrainian layout. Does the shortcut work with switching to another Ukrainian layout?
No it doesn't. Both ways: no switch from mine to builtin and from builtin to mine using Ctrl+digit shortcut.

The only viable workaround I can use is to stuff all keyboard layouts (en+rus+ukr) under single input language (ukrainian). This way it works through Ctrl+digit shortcuts everywhere, but this poses another problem with programs who pay respect to input language. Say, I want to enter english text in MS Word and it thinks it's Ukrainian because, indeed, it is selected as an English layout under Ukrainian language. This is not acceptable.

I wonder why on earth keyboard layout should ever be allowed to be different from input language? Aren't they the same thing essentially?
 

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I have a built in hot key utility.
It works good :
I'm sorry, how is that supposed to help in my problem?
I thought you might look on the internet & find a free hot key utility that would solve your problem.
If need be, I can write the hotkey utility myself.
The essence of my problem is not the inability to setup a hotkey for an arbitrary action, but the fact that builtin Windows language switcher is not working as it is supposed to.
 

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Sorry, I missed the built-in part. What happens in safe mode?
That rules out any third party interference.

I wonder why on earth keyboard layout should ever be allowed to be different from input language? Aren't they the same thing essentially?
They are not. An input language may have multiple keyboard layouts. In your case you have one input language (UA) and several layouts. Actually, i's not a new concept for Windows.

I'll see if I can reproduce your problem over the weekend. That way we can at least establish whether this behavior is not restricted to your system :)
 

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Yeah, I confirm the problem, and it doesn't look like it's specific to Ctrl+ shortcuts, as Ctrl+Shift+ won't work either. I guess you'd have to live with cycling through Win+Space.
 

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Same problem here, but I found the solution.
I'm not really sure about English titles, but it seems to be Region and Language, tab Administrative, Language for non-Unicode programs, set Ukrainian.
Now I am able to switch to Ukrainian language with hot keys in all MS applications.
LoremIpsum, should work for you too.
 

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Well I did that too, from the beginning. Just didn't mention it.

On the problem: Now I'm using Windows 8.1 and it has exactly the same issue; but I'm using the different workaround.

First, after setting Ctrl+digit shortcuts for all three input languages, they are displayed properly in the shortcut settings dialog but they DO NOT work until I logout and login again. Then they work fine but are NOT displayed properly -- at least one is missing (marked as "none") even though it works.

That's weird but viable. Windows way, damn.
 

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It's 2018 now. I have my brand new Microsoft Surface Book 2 with Windows 10, and the same problem. I had this problem in my Lenovo Yoga, but I was sure it was because of some Lenovo driver. But now it's Microfost Surface and I figured out that hot keys just don't work for any Ukrainian keyboard. They work for any keyboard except Ukrainian. I've tried Belorussian that is pretty similar - it works. Ukrainian - doesn't work!!!! Very stupid situation ((((
 

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The same is in the Windows 10 version 1803 build 17134.677
Just for information
You have to configure keyboard language hot keys, copy settings to lock screen (and new accounts if you wish) and lock/unlock computer.
No keyboard hot key is shown in the interface for Ukrainian (enhanced) keyboard but it works.
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Regards
 
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