Solved How can I add a language pack using Powershell 7?


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I want to add Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) language and keyboard pinyin input. How can I do that in Powershell?
 
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Code: 
PS C:\Windows\system32> Install-Language zh-TW                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Language Language Packs  Language Features
-------- --------------  -----------------
zh-TW    LpCab           BasicTyping, Handwriting, Speech, TextToSpeech, OCR

PS C:\Windows\system32> $UserLanguageList = Get-WinUserLanguageList
PS C:\Windows\system32> $UserLanguageList.Add("zh-TW")
PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-WinUserLanguageList -LanguageList $UserLanguageList

Confirm
Continue with this operation?
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): y
WARNING: If the Windows Display Language has changed, it will take effect after the next sign-in.
WARNING: If the Windows Display Language has changed, it will take effect after the next sign-in.

PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-WinDefaultInputMethodOverride -InputTip "0804:{81D4E9C9-1D3B-41BC-9E6C-4B40BF79E35E}{FA550B04-5AD7-411F-A5AC-CA038EC515D7}"
 

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garlin said:
Code: 
PS C:\Windows\system32> Install-Language zh-TW                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Language Language Packs  Language Features
-------- --------------  -----------------
zh-TW    LpCab           BasicTyping, Handwriting, Speech, TextToSpeech, OCR

PS C:\Windows\system32> $UserLanguageList = Get-WinUserLanguageList
PS C:\Windows\system32> $UserLanguageList.Add("zh-TW")
PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-WinUserLanguageList -LanguageList $UserLanguageList

Confirm
Continue with this operation?
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): y
WARNING: If the Windows Display Language has changed, it will take effect after the next sign-in.
WARNING: If the Windows Display Language has changed, it will take effect after the next sign-in.

PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-WinDefaultInputMethodOverride -InputTip "0804:{81D4E9C9-1D3B-41BC-9E6C-4B40BF79E35E}{FA550B04-5AD7-411F-A5AC-CA038EC515D7}"
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Thanks, is there also a way to set Keyboard layout to "Taiwan Pinyin" for the "Microsoft Bopomofo" Installed keyboard using Powershell?
 

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Under Keyboards, MS Bopomofo -> Keyboard options -> Key assignment -> Keyboard layout

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Change your keyboard mapping. Then check Get-WinUserLanguageList
Code: 
PS C:\Users\GARLIN> Get-WinUserLanguageList

LanguageTag     : en-US
Autonym         : English (United States)
EnglishName     : English
LocalizedName   : English (United States)
ScriptName      : Latin
InputMethodTips : {0409:00000409}
Spellchecking   : True
Handwriting     : False

LanguageTag     : zh-Hant-TW
Autonym         : 中文(台灣)
EnglishName     : Chinese
LocalizedName   : Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
ScriptName      : Chinese (Traditional)
InputMethodTips : {0404:{B115690A-EA02-48D5-A231-E3578D2FDF80}{B2F9C502-1742-11D4-9790-0080C882687E}}
Spellchecking   : True
Handwriting     : True

Code: 
$LanguagesList = Get-WinUserLanguageList
$LanguagesList | where { $_.LanguageTag -eq 'zh-Hant-TW' } | ForEach-Object { $_.InputMethodTips.Clear(); $_.InputMethodTips.Add('{0404:{B115690A-EA02-48D5-A231-E3578D2FDF80}{B2F9C502-1742-11D4-9790-0080C882687E}}') }
Set-WinUserLanguageList $LanguagesList -Force
 

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garlin said:
Get-WinUserLanguageList
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garlin said:
Change your keyboard mapping. Then check Get-WinUserLanguageList
Code: 
PS C:\Users\GARLIN> Get-WinUserLanguageList

LanguageTag     : en-US
Autonym         : English (United States)
EnglishName     : English
LocalizedName   : English (United States)
ScriptName      : Latin
InputMethodTips : {0409:00000409}
Spellchecking   : True
Handwriting     : False

LanguageTag     : zh-Hant-TW
Autonym         : 中文(台灣)
EnglishName     : Chinese
LocalizedName   : Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
ScriptName      : Chinese (Traditional)
InputMethodTips : {0404:{B115690A-EA02-48D5-A231-E3578D2FDF80}{B2F9C502-1742-11D4-9790-0080C882687E}}
Spellchecking   : True
Handwriting     : True

Code: 
$LanguagesList = Get-WinUserLanguageList
$LanguagesList | where { $_.LanguageTag -eq 'zh-Hant-TW' } | ForEach-Object { $_.InputMethodTips.Clear(); $_.InputMethodTips.Add('{0404:{B115690A-EA02-48D5-A231-E3578D2FDF80}{B2F9C502-1742-11D4-9790-0080C882687E}}') }
Set-WinUserLanguageList $LanguagesList -Force
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Looks like the keyboard layout identifier isn’t associated to InputMethodTips. I manually changed the keyboard layout through the UI for the MS Bopomofo input method and the InputmethodTips was still the same even after reboot. Doing some googling and searching here could not find how to get keyboard layout identifier or registry key and seems more work than it’s worth. The manual change through the UI after running the Powershell script to install will do for now, thanks.
 
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