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haravikk

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May 1, 2005
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Not strictly a Windows on Mac issue as it's actually more of a "PC running Windows using an old Mac keyboard because my only PC keyboard fell to bits" thread.

Basically I have a UK G3 iMac keyboard plugged into a Windows XP machine, but I'm looking to try and find an input-language profile that matches the keyboard layout. The annoying part really is that the UK layout in Windows XP swaps the @ and " positions since you have to press Shift + 2 to get inverted commas, and Shift + ' for an @ symbol, which has never made any sense to me, but seems to be the standard for UK PC keyboards.

This isn't the standard for UK Mac keyboards however, which have the inverted commas on the same key as the apostrophe, which makes much more sense. Unfortunately the only keyboard layout I know that puts them the right way around is the US profile, but that breaks a ton of other positioning such as the £ sign. The other annoying one is the back-slash which ends up all over the place.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of an input language profile I can use that has all the of keys in the correct positions, with the command key becoming the windows key?
 
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