sbarker6 Author

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Tilde (~) and plus-minus (±) in wrong place on keyboard

I have an ISO keyboard layout, and its set to use British as an input source (Settings -> Input Sources)

For some reason whenever i press shift + tilde key, it returns a ± instead. How can i fix this?

Keyboard is below and specific model is KW 9100 SLIM for mac

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.1

Posted on Mar 29, 2023 4:37 AM

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Mar 29, 2023 11:35 AM in response to sbarker6

See if this helps

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/304819/british-mac-keyboard-and-key-the-wrong-way-around

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Mar 29, 2023 6:16 AM in response to sbarker6

What happens when you press shift and the key next to 1?

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sbarker6 Author

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Mar 29, 2023 10:58 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

shift and the key next to 1 returns ~. It should be returning ±

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