Keyboard layout

[Guest]

I would like to change the keyboard layout (since my @ key thinks it's a ",
and vice versa), from whatever it is now, to whatever it should be for the UK
but I don't know how.

 

[Sharon F]

I would like to change the keyboard layout (since my @ key thinks it's a ",
and vice versa), from whatever it is now, to whatever it should be for the UK
but I don't know how.

Besides setting your preference to English (UK) on the Regional page in
Regional and Language Options, you also need to set that up for your
keyboard. It gets done in the same control panel but on the page tabbed
Languages.

Click the Details button in the text services and input languages section.
Under "Installed services," Select the Keyboard and click the Add button.
Add "English (UK)". After it's added, select it as the default input
language (same page, top portion). OK your way back to the desktop.

Your "global" and input languages now match so your keyboard should start
behaving the way that you expect it to.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help. This works while I am logged into my account, but
before logging in (ie. when typing passwords) the keyboard has the previous
US(?) layout. Can I alter ths as well?

 

[Sharon F]

Thanks for your help. This works while I am logged into my account, but
before logging in (ie. when typing passwords) the keyboard has the previous
US(?) layout. Can I alter ths as well?

Glad to hear that works (at least some of the time for you), aaron. At the
log on screen, only system preferences are loaded; user preferences haven't
been loaded yet. Still... I'm surprised that setting matching languages for
system and for keyboard is not sticking for log on and I would expect both
to be considered system settings. When you added English UK for the
keyboard, did you move it up in the list as the first preferred language?
You could also try removing English US for the keyboard (can add it again
later).