Java needs a programmatic way to iterate through 
the keyboard layouts available on the system, and to 
choose a particular one.  

Here's a common usage scenario.  
An Arabic application contains a form with several text entry fields.  Field A accepts only Latin text and field B accepts only Arabic text.  To save the users the effort of switching their keyboards manually, the app would like to automatically change the keyboard to a Latin layout when field A has the focus and change the keyboard to an Arabic layout when field B has the focus.


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What does "iterate through the keyboards" mean?  Find out which keyboards are
connected and available, and select one?  Or find out which keyboard layouts
are available for the one keyboard that's connected?  --   xxxxx@xxxxx   12/15/1997

Attempts to contact submitter failed, so I'm closing this as not reproducible.
--   xxxxx@xxxxx   2/18/1998


The attempts to contact the submitter somehow never reached the submitter.  I'm reopening the RFE.
  xxxxx@xxxxx   1998-02-24


No response from the submitter, but I believe this is basically the same request as 4067506.
  xxxxx@xxxxx   1998-03-17