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[basta]

For example, suppose this:

::r::return
return

When one types in Russian language, this hotstring is fired.
It would be cool to have a chance don't run this Hotstring during typing in russian(or any other language except english) language

[Chris]

That's interesting. Since I have very little understand of how international characters are actually seen by the keyboard hook, perhaps you can help me by opening the script's main window, typing some Russian characters that cause the R hotstring to be triggered, and then choosing View > Key history from the menu. If you could copy & paste that into an e-mail to support@autohotkey.com it should help me understand it better so that maybe I can fix it.

Specifically, I'm interested in which Russian characters are falsely detected by AutoHotkey as the letter R. Thanks for reporting this.

[BoBo]

[Russian on-screen, virtual keyboard]

Maybe that'll help

[BoBo]

[Cyrillic in Windows]

Introduction
Cyrillic Fonts & Encodings
Russian Keyboard: standard and phonetic
On-screen keyboard
Russian in Browsers/Mail/News
Unicode-related issues: MS Word; Printing; Copy/Paste
Full Russification - Russian programs/file names
For developers: Cyrillic HTML
For developers: multilingual HTML Encoding conversion
More Cyrillization (Q&A, links)

[Chris]

Thanks for the links.

[basta]

[Chris]

basta e-mailed me that the following proposed solution seemed to work for him:

I think I might know the reason for this behavior. Your original issue was: "suppose ::r::return ... When one types in Russian language, this hotstring is fired. It would be cool to have a chance don't run this Hotstring during typing in russian(or any other language except english) language"

When you switch languages using Alt-Shift, Ctrl-Shift, or the language bar, I believe it only switches language for the active window. Thus, the script itself is still using the original language (probably the default language for your username).

To switch the script to a different language, double-click its tray icon then switch languages while its main window is active.

If the above is correct, it would explain why the "r" hotstring fires when you type the "k" in Russian: it's because the script SEES it as the letter "r". But if you also switch the script to Russian, hopefully it will see it correctly as the Russian "k" character and the hotstring will not fire.