Teclado português

google translate says:

I bought my imac recently and realized that comes with the keyboard without cedilla. I want to install a keyboard Portuguese, with cedilla, because I work at two other sites that have this type of keyboard. I'm typing course and keep changing my speed keyboard compromises. I'm not able to find help for this.

I was very disappointed to see that Apple is marketing a product not available in Brazil and the Portuguese keyboard and am having great difficulty to solve the problem.

You can generate a c-with-cedilla on any keyboard, such as the US keyboard, by holding Option and pressing c = ç Ç

You can use a Portuguese (Brazil) or Portuguese (Portugal) keyboard translation using

System preferences > Language & Text > ...

... and adding Portuguese to the list of keyboard translations, then moving it to the top of the list.

google translate says:

I've done it and did not solve the problem. I have to correct mistakes all the time because the keyboard Brazilian and U.S. are different in other things besides the cedilla. Accents are in different locations in the two keyboards, resulting in the need to correct all the time or typographical errors.

I have a keyboard microsoft wireless multimedia keyboard 1.1 in Portuguese that is accepted by the mac, but does not recognize the key cedilla, is the location of accents in different location.

The problem remains.

Apple should provide a keyboard Portuguese in Brazil.

I am sorry the keyboard provided does not match the other portuguese keyboards you use with other computers.

Perhaps the keyboard vendor ¿Microsoft? has a driver that can change the key translations to your liking.

Readers here are other users like you, we do not work for Apple. Maybe the Apple Store in a big city can provide more help.

If you need the special Brazilian ABNT layout, there is one here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/46870715/k/winbrazabnt12.keylayout

If you need one of the others on this chart, email me (tom at bluesky dot org) and say which one:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/46870715/s/portlayouts.jpg

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

You can use a Portuguese (Brazil) or Portuguese (Portugal) keyboard translation using

System preferences > Language & Text > ...

... and adding Portuguese to the list of keyboard translations, then moving it to the top of the list.

Those are not keyboard translations, they are translations of the OS interface language, and adding or moving them will not have any effect on the keyboard layout.

Tom-

For future reference, are there any selections anywhere that will modify keyboard translations?

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

For future reference, are there any selections anywhere that will modify keyboard translations?

Yes, the different keyboard layouts are activated in system preferences/language & text/input sources.

Ah, thanks very much!

Thats where all the Flags are!

This site may have the answer:

http://www.languagegeek.com/keyboard_general/mac_installation1.html

jjannuzzi wrote:

How can I change my ABNT pattern to Brazilian one in my mac? Please, step by step.

Follow the instructions in the link provide Grant. (Except "International" is now "Language & Text", and "Input Menu" is now "Input Sources.")

Come back if you have any problems.