How to determine the name of the active keyboard layout?

Question

I can call GetKeyboardLayout to retrieve an "input locale identifier", which identifies the active layout in Windows. How can I convert this to a human-readable name, such as "English (United States)"?

GetKeyboardLayoutName is misleading - it just returns a string containing a hex version of the identifier retrieved by GetKeyboardLayout.

Answer 1

Here is a list of keyboard layout names with their key names.

Edit: I scanned registry and I found keyboard layout names on this location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts