Everything is quite logical, the official Logitech factory produces a keyboard with an international English layout.

Next, this keyboard goes to, let’s say, an importer, or to a company that applies the letters by laser engraving, I’ll tell you, quite qualitatively. Since the letters of the second language are written on a ready-made universal international keyboard, where large English characters are located in the center of the key, and there is less space for writing a letter in another language, the letter is written in a smaller font and located at the bottom right of the button.

Factory engraving involves drawing letters according to the rules, that is, the letters have the same size, font and are located symmetrically on the diagonal so that it is visually more favorable for the user. Considering the high price of the Logitech MX KEYS S keyboard, I believe that the engraving should be of higher quality.

I note that the keyboard for the European market will always have an ISO layout and the American one ANSI, this means that for lovers of a long “shift” the factory engraving cannot be in another language. This is also indicated on the manufacturer’s official website.

For clarity, I made a video showing the difference between the two keyboards in white and black, the video is in Ukrainian.

Intro

Samsung phones by defaul use its Samsung keyboard, and it works fine with Logitech keyboard, but I prefer Google Gboard keyboard. So I have:

• Logitech MX S
• Samsung S10e
• Gboard with two languages Ukrainian and English

General management

I see two features:

• Gboard settings – Multilingual typing
• Physical keyboard – MX KEYS S

It means Physical keyboard is detected and I need to set it up

Gboard settings

In this menu I see three languages:

• Ukrtainian
• English US
• English UK

It means that languages are active. So I check Gboard Physical keyboard settings.

Gboard Physical keyboard settings

This menu show full list of desired languages. I expected that all should work perfect, but unfortunately – NO. Next I need to check System physical keyboard settings.

System Physical keyboard settings

This screenshot show me, that Physical keyboard MX KEYS S use three keyboards:

• Gboard – Multilingual typing
• Samsung Keyboard English US
• Samsung Keyboard Ukrainian

Gboard – Multilingual typing – support only ONE layout, in this case English (UK) Qwerty style, but NOT three languages, which I described above.

Language and layout

When I go to Gboard – Multilingual typing menu, I visit Language and layout screen. I can select any language from list, but it not be added, just replaced. In this mode, I can’t select two layouts or languages.

Conclussion

So I do not know, how to add additional language for Multilingual style. I think it is main reson, why physical keyboard correct switch language, but not switch keyboard layout.