[Run] Support for localized app names

[mikekosulin]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Product Launcher should support keyboard layout mapping for all system keyboard layouts, for example:

US Keyboard ⟶ Russian Keyboard
Russian Keyboard ⟶ US Keyboard
EDIT: commenting out the part about the keyboard switching since it nor relevant, this problem is present even for languages that don't require to switch keyboard.

Query "ьшскщыщае еуфьы" should display the results of "ьшскщыщае еуфьы" and "microsoft teams" queries.

Query "rfkmrekznjh" should display the results of "калькулятор" and "rfkmrekznjh" queries.

P.S.

Also Product Launcher should search for the localized app names(ms-resource:AppName) like a Windows Search.

Product Launcher:

Windows Search:

[htcfreek]

@mikekosulin
Please try the following:

1. Close PowerToys.
2. Delete the cache folder under %localappdata%\microsoft\powertoys\powertoys run\cache.
3. Start PowerToys and wait a moment.
4. Search for calculator in russian language. (Search for the english term is because of an index issue not possible, I think.)

Please report if this solution helps you. Thank you.

[mikekosulin]

@htcfreek
No, still can't find in Russian lang.

PowerToys 18.2
W10 Pro 2004 (19041.329)

[htcfreek]

@htcfreek
No, still can't find in Russian lang.

@mikekosulin
Can you please check if the calculator is listed in the file %localappdata%\microsoft\powertoys\powertoys run\cache\uwp.cache and which name is listed (english or russian). Thank you.

The file can be opened by editor.

[mikekosulin]

@jyuwono
I don't think that's duplicate, because everything below P.S. not directly related to keyboard mapping like dotSwitcher, PuntoSwitcher, CarambaSwitcher functionality to PowerToys search.

[mikekosulin]

@htcfreek
there is only "Calculator", not "Kalkulator" and not "Калькулятор".
Important note:
My locale is "English US" and the region is the United States.
Preferred languages:

• English US
• Russian

[htcfreek]

@htcfreek
there is only "Calculator", not "Kalkulator" and not "Калькулятор".
Important note:
My locale is "English US" and the region is the United States.
Preferred languages:

• English US
• Russian

@mikekosulin
Can you then find calculator in PowerToys Run?

[mikekosulin]

@htcfreek I didn't have any issue w/ English app name.
The only Cyrillic layout of English app-name AND locale name in Russian.

[mikekosulin]

Also, Windows Search is so funny.

Can anybody explain why PowerToys doesn't use Windows search?

[htcfreek]

@htcfreek I didn't have any issue w/ English app name.
The only Cyrillic layout of English app-name AND locale name in Russian.

@mikekosulin
You are right. This issue is not completely duplicate. But it goes in the same direction.

I think the problem here is that the name is only show in english and not localized because you use the english language.
So PowerToys Run is not able to know the russian app name.

So for me it seems the windows search indexes also the names in the language of the available keyboard layout or general knows all localized names world-wide.

[htcfreek]

Can anybody explain why PowerToys doesn't use Windows search?

I think because we have implemented Wox. But there is an other issue which suggests this. (I can't find it at the moment.)

[enricogior]

Closing this in favor of #4144 since it's more general.

[zspitz]

@enricogior This issue has two parts:

1. search for localized names for applications, and
2. map the search term to equivalent keypresses in all available keyboard layouts (or perhaps a user-selected subset of them) and search for both variants.

AFAICT #4144 only covers the first part, not the second.

Should I open a new issue?

[gexgd0419]

As this issue has been closed, I posted my comment here.

Basically, Windows provides some APIs that makes mapping between keyboard layouts possible, although things like dead keys cannot be mapped correctly.