This is the keyboard driver I’m using on my Vista. I’ve been using it for ~2 years now, on XP as well. It works more than fine for me, since I am using it to write in Romanian quite often. I was in Poland for some months, and that’s why the driver has a dead key for building Polish diacritics.
The reason behind building this was the fact that the Swedish/Finnish layout has major differences from the US-International layout, and implicitly from the Romanian layout. Therefore it is highly annoying to guess where are is, for instance, ” [quotes] while you look at a Swedish/Finnish keyboard with a Romanian driver. (It’s on the ~).
Hopefully this will be useful for others who need both Swedish/Finnish and Romanian diacritics on the same Swedish/Finnish keyboard.
Basics - keeps all the Swedish/Finnish keys, except the following:
- ö becomes ș (S with comma bellow - legacy)
- ä becomes ț (T with comma bellow - legacy)
- ‘ becomes â
- å becomes ă
- ¨ becomes î
- ´ becomes ‘ (` [Shift + ´] becomes *)
In detail:
- AltGr + e builds €
- AltGr + c builds ©
- AltGr + ö builds ş (s with cedilla bellow), and AltGr + Ö builds Ş
- AltGr + ä builds ţ (t with cedilla bellow), and AltGr + Ä builds Ţ
- ´ is now a dead key only in combination with AltGr + ´
- ` is now a dead key only in combination with AltGr + Shift + ´
- ¨ is now a dead key only in combination with AltGr + ¨
- ^ is now a dead key only in combination with AltGr + Shift + ¨
- ~ is now a dead key only in combination with AltGr + ‘
Polish Features:
- AltGr + p becomes a dead key, allowing for the Polish Programmers layout to kick in
- z, x, c, n, a, s, l, e, o, after AltGr + p, will become
ż, ź, ć, ń, ą, ś, ł, ę, ó
This driver will install a keyboard layout under the name
Swedish - Romanian (Standard), Romanian (Legacy) [AltGr], Polish (Programmers) [deadkey]
AltGr because it allows Legacy diacritics with cedilla - ş and ţ - by pressing AltGr+ö and AltGr+ä
deadkey because you can have the Polish (Programmers) layout with the use of a dead key
Swedish/Finnish Original Layout
My Layout
My Layout in AltGr state
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