can someone tell me why there is no hash key on uk keyboards?

[hopejr]

The entire keyboard layout is a little irritating tbh, but fortunately I adapt quickly to things like that. Others here haven't found it so easy, and one (programmer) has bought a MS keyboard.

" instead of @ still confuses me, # still throws me and ` instead of \ catches me sometimes too.

For long time Mac users I'd imagine it's not an issue at all, but crazy key placement doesn't make for easy switching.

It's not a mac specific layout to have things in the wrong places like that. It's just the UK keyboard layout in general. The same thing happens in Windows with a UK keyboard layout (and a physical UK keyboard). In the US and Australia (which use the US English keyboard layout), the hash is shift+3 as normal, and @ is shift+2, even on mac keyboards. You should've bought one with a US keyboard layout if it's such a problem.

 

[Queso]

It's not a mac specific layout to have things in the wrong places like that. It's just the UK keyboard layout in general. The same thing happens in Windows with a UK keyboard layout (and a physical UK keyboard). In the US and Australia (which use the US English keyboard layout), the hash is shift+3 as normal, and @ is shift+2, even on mac keyboards. You should've bought one with a US keyboard layout if it's such a problem.

The Mac UK layout is a lot closer to the US layout than the Windows one is. Getting a US Mac keyboard won't help if you're used to the Windows UK layout. We'd just get a load of threads complaining that nobody could find the £ symbol, and Apple were acting as cultural imperialists

 

[SpookTheHamster]

I don't get what the big deal is here. I'm a UK user, and I've known for a long time that # is shift+3, but £ is alt+3. If you find it that hard, just draw on your keyboard with permanent marker.

 

[sandyc1]

£ symbol I think, I'm not in front of a mac so barely recall it.

A keyboard should still have a # key shouldn't it though?

DIDNT WORK

 

[skunk]

# Alt+3

 

[dcforeman]

Go to system preferences, select keyboard, click on Input sources, press the + symbol, select British - PC, then delete British. Keys are now in the right place.

Thanks apple for making this so easy, a simple drop down menu on the "identify keyboard" screen would solve a lot of confused users in the UK working with PC keyboards. Your keyboard detection is crap.

 

[phrehdd]

Make sense that the "#" sign is replaced with the "£" sign (key).

In the USA/Canada the # sign is either "number" or "pound" by name.
Elsewhere it also includes "hash" as its name.

So you lost your hash but you gained a pound.