Special characters via remote desktop

[DonRex]

Hey guys,

Very new MacBook Pro owner here with a most likely very naïve question.

I'm on a Scandinavian keyboard and everything works brilliantly while in OS X. When I connect to my Windows XP at the office, via Remote Desktop, also with a Scandinavian keyboard layout, I get pretty much all the characters I expect to get, at their normal/standard positions, except for the <> (less than and greater than)-characters which are completely absent. I have literally tried every known keyboard combination I could think of and I'm starting to go mad.

Naturally, to make matters even more mindbending, a simple fix was to switch the keyboard layout on the XP machine to English, which immediately gave me back the < > characters, but then took away the = (equal)-sign which is another character I use a lot.

So, now I've come to you:

How do I get a working keyboard/character layout when connecting through Remote Desktop from OS X to Windows XP with a Scandinavian keyboard?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas

 

[AnssiV]

Did you ever get this problem solved? I have the exact same problem only with Windows 7.

-Anssi

 

[longface]

Use Royal TSX:

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/45084/royal-tsx

RDC from Microsoft will not give you characters like > and < as of today.

 

[Sabah]

Workaround

I have the same problem and use the Alt-key combinations as a workaround. Hold the Alt key while entering the digits on the numeric keypad:

< Alt + 60
= Alt + 61
> Alt + 62