doublequote and atsign swapped using my non-Mac keyboard

confuzatron · Feb 14, 2005, 05:42 PM

Hi,
I'm using my new Mac mini with my existing PC keyboard (a UK MS 'Natural' Keyboard Pro). When I type @ I get a ", and vice versa.

In fact, I just noticed a large number of other keys dont do what they have printed on them (pound sterling sign, hash, tilde, etc). In Windows I'd be looking for somewhere to set the type of the keyboard, but in OSX - no idea!

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

stoid · Feb 14, 2005, 05:48 PM

You may need to go into International in System Preferences and change the keyboard input type under Input Menu. I don't know what (if any) you should change it to though. There is a British one, so maybe that will fix it.

confuzatron · Feb 14, 2005, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stoid

You may need to go into International in System Preferences and change the keyboard input type under Input Menu. I don't know what (if any) you should change it to though. There is a British one, so maybe that will fix it.

Aha. Changing that to 'british' does correctly change SHIFT+3 from the 'hash' sign (With keyboard set to 'british' there does not seem to be a key that prints out that character) to the £ sign.
However, " and @ are still transposed.
(and tilde comes out as vertical bar, vertical bar comes out as ±, backslash comes out as §, logical not (SHIFT+key to left of 1) comes out as ~ etc etc

argh!
The weird thing is I have the driver software installed for this keyboard that enables all its extra buttons (back forward volume± etc) - ie it's supported on OSX.

confuzatron · Feb 17, 2005, 02:43 PM

I discovered that mappings from keys to characters is controlled through 'keylayout' files. You drop these into Library/Keyboard Layouts, log out, re-login, and they appear in the input methods list.
(Ive attached a keylayout file that works with my keyboard)

Applespider · Feb 17, 2005, 02:49 PM

Alt 3 gets you the # in the UK keyboard layout
Alt 2 gets you the € symbol

Feb 14, 2005, 05:42 PM	#1
confuzatron macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland	doublequote and atsign swapped using my non-Mac keyboard Hi, I'm using my new Mac mini with my existing PC keyboard (a UK MS 'Natural' Keyboard Pro). When I type @ I get a ", and vice versa. In fact, I just noticed a large number of other keys dont do what they have printed on them (pound sterling sign, hash, tilde, etc). In Windows I'd be looking for somewhere to set the type of the keyboard, but in OSX - no idea! Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
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Feb 17, 2005, 02:49 PM	#5
Applespider macrumors 603 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: looking through rose-tinted spectacles...	Alt 3 gets you the # in the UK keyboard layout Alt 2 gets you the € symbol __________________ Oops.... the cat killed the rabbit
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stoid macrumors 68040 Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: So long, and thanks for all the fish!	You may need to go into International in System Preferences and change the keyboard input type under Input Menu. I don't know what (if any) you should change it to though. There is a British one, so maybe that will fix it.
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