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Q: spanish keyboard on american imac

I live and bought my MAC in USA, however, I bought a keyboard Mexico to be able to use all the special characters in the Spanish vocabulary but my MAC does not respond to the characters I type. I have tried changing the keybord settings in System Preferences but haven't been succesful.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jan 21, 2013 7:41 PM

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  • by Courcoul,Helpful

    Courcoul Jan 21, 2013 10:03 PM in response to o.vargas.76
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    Jan 21, 2013 10:03 PM in response to o.vargas.76

    System Preferences / Language & Text / Input Sources

     

    Tick Keyboard & Character Viewer as well as Spanish and Spanish - ISO. When that is done, a little flag will pop in the menubar. There you will find which keyboard layout is active, US will always be there. Using the Keyboard Viewer also found there, you will need to experiment which of the two Spanish layouts matches your keyboard. The Keyboard Viewer will also show you were all the characters are laid out, including those that require two keypresses: just hold down Option and see which keys light up in dark yellow.

  • by o.vargas.76,Solvedanswer

    o.vargas.76 o.vargas.76 Jan 21, 2013 10:29 PM in response to Courcoul
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    Jan 21, 2013 10:29 PM in response to Courcoul

    NICE! Thank you! The one that worked best for me was the Spanish - ISO.

     

    Thank You.

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    Courcoul Jan 21, 2013 11:23 PM in response to o.vargas.76
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    Jan 21, 2013 11:23 PM in response to o.vargas.76

    It is generally considered good sportsmanship to award the green checkmark to whomever SOLVED your question, not yourself.....