How do I change the input language for Emoji keyboard in Windows 10?

Solution 1:

A picture is worth a thousand words:

Above examples snipped from emoji picker started using Win + . i.e. Windows logo key + . (period) during text entry…

Tested using the following language settings:

D:\PShell\_test_Get-Culture.ps1

Language     LangTag KbdID    KbdLayout                  
--------     ------- -----    ---------                  
English      en-GB   00000405 Czech                      
English      en-GB   00000452 United Kingdom Extended    
Czech        cs      00000405 Czech                      
Czech        cs      00020409 United States-International

The _test_Get-Culture.ps1 script:

### _test_Get-Culture.ps1 ###
$gcRegKey = 'HKLM:SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts'
$gcWULL = Get-WinUserLanguageList
$cgWULLHuman = $gcWULL | ForEach-Object {
    $gcU=$_
    $gcUIMT=$gcU.InputMethodTips
    if ( $gcUIMT ) {
        $gcUIMT | ForEach-Object {
            $cLx=$_.Substring(5)
            $cLz=Get-Item -LiteralPath "$gcRegKey\$cLx"
            $cLy=$cLz.GetValue("Layout Text", $gcU.LanguageTag)
            [psCustomObject]@{
                "Language"  = ($gcU.EnglishName).Replace(' (1453-)','');
                'LangTag'   = $gcU.LanguageTag;
                "KbdID"     = $cLx;
                "KbdLayout" = $cLy
            }
        }
    } else {
            [psCustomObject]@{
                "Language"  = ($gcU.EnglishName).Replace(' (1453-)','');
                'LangTag'   = $gcU.LanguageTag;
                "KbdID"     = '';
                "KbdLayout" = 'N/A'
            }
    }
}
$cgWULLHuman

Solution 2:

I added and English entry (keyboard layout + language pack) in Settings > Language > Preferred languages.

I need to switch to that keyboard layout before I can search for emojis in English, but at least it works.