Sorry that I'd just like to report this request of type "feature" but hadn't find anyway to set it.
I'd like to ask the Chrome team to provide two input related APIs:
1. API to get the locale and keyboard layout info of the inputting language of OS.
2. API to get the notification when the user changes the inputting keyboard layout of OS.

Moreover, could you please help to add these APIs for multiple OS platforms(Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, etc).
Thanks a lot!

Untriaged it so that feature request gets addressed.

Thanks.!

Not V8 related.

Can you provide us with the use case that you need this for?

I know there was a desire to spec this: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/d4e/raw-file/tip/source_respec.htm a while ago. But I don't believe it ever got an implementation.

Gary might be able to provide some context why.

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your attention on this feature request.

The reason of requesting this feature is that Citrix RfHtml5 that runs on Chrome needs to get the keyboard layout of the local machine, and then send it to remote server side. But now there isn't any API of javascript to get the keyboard layout, so that we'd like the Chrome team to help to provide these APIs.

Thanks and best regards!

Hi,

I'd like to clarify that the requirement is for Chrome Browser in general rather than Chrome OS.

Thanks!

See https://discourse.wicg.io/t/keyboardevent-getcharacterbykey-key-modifierlist/1857 for a related proposal.

Getting locale and layout is complicated by the lack of an easy-to-use cross-platform list. BCP-47 does a lot of the heavy lifting, but things like Dvorak and custom key overrides make it non-trivial.

The above proposal is to return the current key map pings without reference to the locale/layout, although the layout could be inferred from that information.