How to emulate button presses in a specific layout?

Question

Windows

There is a problem - I wrote a simple program that inserts a timestamp into the current input window by emulating button presses, but there is one "but":
"03Y03Y2019 18Ж48Ж58" :) as you can see, not quite what it should be, namely, if the current input language is Russian, then instead of "." (dot) is printed "u", and instead of ":" (colon) "Ж".
There is an idea to make a forced translation of the layout from Russian to English, and there is such a way, but then I would like to restore it, but here is another "BUT", how to find out which layout, more precisely, the input language is active for the current input window?

Answer 1

To emulate input, use the SendInput API - it allows you to emulate the input of any characters and supports Unicode. Here is an example of usage: https://github.com/nnCron/plugins/blob/master/send...
Well, or you can just download , install nncron as an application, sendinput and strings plugins, and use a task like this:

#( Вставка_даты
WatchHotKey: "@+d" \ Alt+Shift+D
SingleInstance
Action:
BEGIN 
   VK_MENU KEY-PRESSED? 
   [CHAR] D KEY-PRESSED? OR
   VK_LSHIFT KEY-PRESSED? OR
WHILE
  50 PAUSE
REPEAT  
" %DD%/%MM%/%YYYY% %hh%:%mm%" AKEYS
)#