Cannot type ` (apostrophe) with any of my keyboards - no such button exists in the new layout on Mac-OS Monterey

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Cannot type ` (apostrophe) with any of my keyboards - no such button exists in the new layout on Mac-OS Monterey

I have 2 bluetooth keyboards with US layout - one of them is Apple Magic keyboard, and one from another brand. On both of them the apostrophe (`) is on top left (next to button 1). But the new keyboard layout on OS Monterey changed somehow and now instead of the apostrophe, there is a § sign. And the apostrophe apparently is on some new button on the left side of Z, but my keyboards don't even have such a button! So basically I cannot type an apostrophe with my keyboard. This didn't happen in previous OS...

here are the screenshots of the keyboard layout vs. my physical keyboard.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Mar 8, 2023 3:38 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 8, 2023 5:02 AM in response to danas_blia

Your machine thinks your keyboard is the ISO (European) type with the extra key instead of the ANSI (US) type without it. Here are some ideas to fix this Keyboard Type Problem:

https://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2009/12/fixing-keyboard-type-problems.html

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danas_blia Author

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Mar 8, 2023 4:13 AM in response to dialabrain

you are right - sorry about that. I meant the quotation mark. But I must have it functioning, because the system uses CMND + ` to switch windows and also to switch to numbers in Lithuanian layout for example. It's strange suddenly not to have a basic system function that used to work on all keyboards and it's not anymore...

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 8, 2023 5:05 AM in response to Barney-15E

Barney-15E wrote:

That doesn’t appear to be any US layout I have ever seen. If you go to the keyboard system preferences what is set for the input source?

It is just the ISO keyboard which is used in all European countries with the US input source applied.

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dialabrain

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Mar 8, 2023 3:56 AM in response to danas_blia

FWIW, the (`) punctuation mark is not actually an apostrophe but a backquote, left quote, acute, etc. Most use the single quote next to the return key.

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