Keyboard symbols are in the wrong place?

[Macbookprouser24]

Hey guys,

I have a question for you, I've searched Google for 2 days now and nothing seems to cut it.
My keyboard symbols are not the way they're suppose to be. I have a Macbook Pro 2011, and I love it. The symbols I have on my keyboard are shown this way (from 1 to 0 holding my shift key): !@#$%^&*()

This means that a shift-6 gives me a ^ instead of a &. So the input is set up well, but the symbols aren't shown the right way on my keyboard itself. I think this keyboard is from a different language.
I am dutch, and I have my keyboard set up for Dutch. Though I have tried British, English US and some others, there seems like no other keyboard is physically set up like mine.

Any ideas?? Help would be really appreciated!

Dutch guy

 

[Spink10]

I may be confused. But what you described is how it is suppose to be.

 

[drambuie]

If you are saying that pressing shift+6 produces ^, that is the proper shift+6 symbol for standard European and American keyboards. If the 6 key keycap has a & for the symbol, you could have a Japanese or German keyboard layout.

If you google apple keyboard layouts and look at the images, you'll probably find your exact keyboard.

 

[Macbookprouser24]

Thanks for the responds!

Like my message said, the problem is not that it doesn't produce the wrong symbols, but the symbols seem to be in a different place on my keyboard.

Beside the 6 being a '&' symbol instead of a '^', I noticed something else. On the far right next to the Shift key, it has one key with a '?' symbol, and a '+' symbol. I have looked through all the different keyboard layouts, and not one seems to match with it. Either the '^' symbol doesn't match, or the question mark and plus symbol are not in the right place. I really start to wonder what kind of keyboard this is, what kind of Macbook this is, for that matter.

 

[Qaanol]

Picture?

 

[Macbookprouser24]

I hope this is clear enough

 

[Qaanol]

That is kind of awesome. You can use Karabiner (and/or Seil) to remap the keys if you need to.

I’d use it as-is just for the novelty though.

 

[drambuie]

I hope this is clear enough

That's interesting. The number row is identical to the Swedish keyboard number row, including the far left key and the 2 key with the " and the @. The only difference is that the ?/+ key is next to the 0 key where it belongs and the dash/underscore is next to the right shift. Someone may have swapped those keys to put the dashes in the usual place next to the 0.