Switcing to Turkish Keyboard

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Switcing to Turkish Keyboard

Hi there,
I've just got my new macbook pro and did the initial setup and installed some applications like msoffice and fusion. but even I set my keyboard to be Turkish Q from the first initial setup I cannot type in turkish chars, the input source is Turkish Q, there is no other input source config for any other k/b type.
the strange thing is I can type turkish within fusion virtual windows xp machines
any suggestion

happy new year for all
ayhg

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 22, 2009 11:12 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 23, 2009 3:57 PM in response to ayhan.genc

it's not a PC keyboard, it's the MBP embedded keyboard.

The "PC" refers to the layout, not the actual keyboard. This doc shows the two kinds of keyboards that Apple currently makes for Turkey.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2841

Neither of them corresponds to the Turkish QWERTY layout, so I am not sure why Apple still includes that in the software -- perhaps in the past they supplied one which matched it. It would not be unusual for an Apple keyboard to differ from that normally supplied with a PC.

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 23, 2009 5:08 AM in response to ayhan.genc

even I set my keyboard to be Turkish Q from the first initial setup I cannot type in turkish chars

What happens when you type Option/alt + g, i, o, u, s, c? Do you not get ğ, ı, ö, ü, ş, and ç?

If you are used to the PC layout, go to system prefs/language & text/input sources and check the box for Turkish Qwerty PC and select that one in the "flag" menu instead of Turkish Qwerty.

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Answer 3

Dec 22, 2009 11:19 PM in response to ayhan.genc

You could try opening the On Screen Keyboard

System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources

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ayhan.genc Author

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Dec 23, 2009 3:18 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks Tom,

it's OK with Turkish QWERTY PC selection, but strange, it's not a PC keyboard, it's the MBP embedded keyboard.

ayhg

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