keyboard identification

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keyboard identification

i bought a macally keyboard for my leopard mac pro -

I screwed up when doing the keyboard ID process, and now it seems to think my keyboard is a Japanese layout or something!

is there any way to get it to re-ID the keyboard? now I can:t figure out how to get quotes and apostrophes! it gives me colons instead of apostrophes and the parentheses seem to be reversed! help!

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Posted on Nov 6, 2008 8:09 AM

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Answer 1

nerowolfe

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Nov 6, 2008 8:27 AM in response to WillFriedwald2

In System Preferences, International, select Language, Formats and Input Menu to the proper languages.

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

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Nov 6, 2008 9:19 AM in response to WillFriedwald2

now it seems to think my keyboard is a Japanese layout or something!

Apostrophe replaced by colon may indicate that is the case. This picture of the JIS keyboard may enable you to confirm it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Japanese

If so, that cannot be fixed in the system preferences. See

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2234.html

Or perhaps you can run KeyboardSetupAssistant.app in System/Library/CoreServices

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