UIA console: when typing in the console, characters are wrongly pronounced regardless of the keyboard layout

[zstanecic]

Steps to reproduce:

1. open a console window with the uia console option turned on, for example a wsl console
   . switch to croatian or to the US keyboard language. I am not aware of other layouts having the problem which i will describe here thoroughly
   russian keyboard is also included there
2. try to type or ], ; or ', \ or /

Actual behavior:

note: here are given the corresponding keys on the us keyboard. these keys are wrongly interpreted by NVDA also on oother non-us keyboard layout
for example / slash on US keyboard is interpreted as apostrophe,
; as č, the croatian diacritic mark, and so on.

Expected behavior:

the signs should be interpreded bz NVDA as these are written on the kezboard respectivelz

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

NVDA installed

NVDA version:

Latest alpha

Windows version:

18362 latest indows 10 1903

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

n-a

Other information about your system:

to reproduce this bug, you should have turned on have character echo turned on

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your PC?

yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

n/a

[lukaszgo1]

cc @codeofdusk

[codeofdusk]

cc @codeofdusk

This is probably a bug with Windows keyboard hooks. Look at the block starting at around line 196 of the keyboardhandler module and the Win32 ToUnicodeEx function.