The language keyboard layout and swapping languages is actually what Microsoft recommended in their "big book on International Languages;" but the book was too big to recommend, and our copy is still apparently "in a box" afer our move.

Microsoft had a web page where you could look at any of the 120 or so keyboards that are "standard" for different languages and different parts of the world; but it's set up so that you can only look at one at a time and they've made it hard to make notes. My recollection is that when you hover your mouse pointer over the Shift, Alt, etc key the picture changes to show what keys print different chars with a bucky key, so you have to lay the pointer on the key for each variation and use screen capture (Alt-PrtScn) to get a picture you can clip into a document or image editing program.

The last time I posted a link here to the "International Keyboards" page there was talk about the "virtual keyboard" you could flip up on screen, to click individual special characters; but it didn't work well with the OS versions that were common then, and I've never gone back to see if it's better - or even available - with current versions.

John