Change Keyboard Layout, But Keep Language

I have a MacBook with USA keyboard layout.

While installing, by mistake i selected Latin American keyboard.

Now, i want my language to still be "Spanish/Argentina", but they keyboard layout should be USA.

How can i do that? Note that I don't want to have many input keyboards and then have to switch between latin and english language.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Oct 11, 2008 6:28 PM

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Oct 11, 2008 6:33 PM in response to Kwanbis2

Kwanbis2 wrote:
I have a MacBook with USA keyboard layout.

While installing, by mistake i selected Latin American keyboard.

Now, i want my language to still be "Spanish/Argentina", but they keyboard layout should be USA.

How can i do that? Note that I don't want to have many input keyboards and then have to switch between latin and english language.


In International Preferences, it seems that you can select a Language separate from the Input Menu (Keyboard Layout).
I have never tried it but it looks like it might help.

Oct 11, 2008 9:38 PM in response to Kwanbis2

I don't see an option to change "keyboard layout" only.


Do you really not see the Tab called Input Menu under system preferences/international? There are boxes to check for keyboard layouts, and one is called US.

Another Tab is called Language, and there you can put Spanish (actually Español) at the top to keep your OS in Spanish.

Another Tab, in the middle, is called Formats.

PS If you want to type Spanish with the US layout, you can use the Option/Alt key shortcuts. A list can be found here:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html

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