China/Japan/Korea Input System (IME)

[katayama_hirofumi_mz]

What's this on earth?

subsystems/win32/win32k/ntuser/kbdlayout.c (196):

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static PKBL UserLoadDllAndCreateKbl(DWORD LocaleId)
{
   ...

   /* Microsoft Office expects this value to be something specific
    * for Japanese and Korean Windows with an IME the value is 0xe001
    * We should probably check to see if an IME exists and if so then
    * set this word properly.
    */
   langid = PRIMARYLANGID(LANGIDFROMLCID(LocaleId));
   hKl = LocaleId;

   if (langid == LANG_CHINESE || langid == LANG_JAPANESE || langid == LANG_KOREAN)
      hKl |= 0xe001 << 16; /* FIXME */
   else hKl |= hKl << 16;

   ...

Help me and I can help you as a Japanese programmer.

[SuperDog]

I guess it's a text orientation flag

[katayama_hirofumi_mz]

How should we extend UserLoadKbdDll and KBLList?

[andrewweb]

I guess it's a text orientation flag

Korean, Chinese and Japanese are usually written left-to-right in the OS.
It's probably an "IME" flag.