{"id":74747,"date":"2024-04-10T10:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T04:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=74747"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:30:20","slug":"remove-unknown-locale-language-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/remove-unknown-locale-language-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove Unwanted Locale (Keyboard) from the Language Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

After installing updates, you may find unknown locale(s), such as QAA-Latn or QAC-Latn, when you click the Language bar, as seen in the screenshot below.<\/p>\n

\"remove<\/p>\n

However, the QAC and QAA entries do not<\/strong> appear in the list of languages when you open Settings<\/strong> \u2192 Time & Language<\/strong> \u2192 Language<\/strong>. You wonder how to remove the unknown keyboard languages from the listing.<\/p>\n

Resolution<\/h2>\n

Step 1: Remove the unwanted keyboard layout<\/h3>\n

Using PowerShell, you can remove those unknown keyboard layouts automatically.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Start PowerShell as administrator.<\/li>\n
  2. Run the following command:\n
    Get-WinUserLanguageList<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Press Enter.
    \n\"remove<\/p>\n
    (The Get-WinUserLanguageList cmdlet returns the current user language settings. These settings include input method, spelling setting, text prediction setting, and handwriting input mode.)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  4. In this case, you may want to retain en-US<\/strong> and en-IN<\/strong> languages and delete the remaining ones. To do so, run the following command:\n
    Set-WinUILanguageOverride en-US, en-IN -Force<\/pre>\n
    Note: To retain only en-US, you’d type “Set-WinUILanguageOverride en-US -Force<\/code>“<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Now, click the Language bar to see if the changes are effective.
    \n\"remove<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    That’s it! The English (United States) and English (India) entries are retained. The QAA-Latn and QAC-Latn entries are removed.<\/p>\n
    \n
    Alternate method<\/h4>\n
    Alternatively, you can use the Set-WinUserLanguageList<\/code> cmdlet as below. The following removes the qac-Latn<\/code> and qaa-Latn<\/code> layouts.<\/p>\n
    \n$List = Get-WinUserLanguageList\n$List.Add(\"qac-Latn\")\n$List.Add(\"qaa-Latn\")\nSet-WinUserLanguageList $List -Force\n<\/pre>\n
    At this point, you can open Settings and remove the QAA-Latn and QAC-Latn entries. To do that using PowerShell, run the following:<\/p>\n
    \n$List = Get-WinUserLanguageList\n$Lang = $List | where LanguageTag -eq \"qac-Latn\"\n$List.Remove($Lang)\n$Lang = $List | where LanguageTag -eq \"qaa-Latn\"\n$List.Remove($Lang)\nSet-WinUserLanguageList $List -Force\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
    \n
    Step 2: Prevent unwanted keyboard layout from being added<\/h3>\n
    The next step is to stop the keyboard layout from being added after a restart.<\/p>\n
      \n
    1. Open Control Panel.<\/li>\n
    2. Click “Region”. If you’re in Category view, click Clock and Region \u2192 Region.<\/li>\n
    3. Select the “Administrative” tab.<\/li>\n
    4. Click “Copy settings.”
      \n\"copy<\/li>\n
    5. Select the “Welcome screen and system accounts” and “New user accounts” checkboxes.\n
      \"copy<\/li>\n
    6. Click OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      This copies the display language, input language, format, and location settings of the current user to the logon desktop and new user accounts.<\/p>\n
      That’s it. The unwanted keyboard layout shouldn’t come back after the reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      After installing updates, you may find unknown locale(s), such as QAA-Latn or QAC-Latn, when you click the Language bar, as seen in the screenshot below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,869],"tags":[396],"class_list":["post-74747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","category-windows-11","tag-powershell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75671,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wrong-keyboard-layout-login-screen\/","url_meta":{"origin":74747,"position":0},"title":"[Fix] Wrong Keyboard Layout at the Sign-in Screen","author":"Ramesh","date":"June 26, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"On some systems, the default keyboard layout may change when you're at the sign-in screen. 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