Startup Default Keyboard

Hello

Thanks for the reply and the tips.

This is not exactly the solution to the problem I am having.

First, the ability to work with the langauge only appears to be available AFTER you complete the startup (initial log in of an user account).

What is occurring is the when booting up, and the first log in screen appears during the startup process, the physical keyboard of the MBA does not match the input keyboard of the startup.

My password had (i ahve changed now) an "@" in it, and the physical keyboard is a US keyboard. Normally the @ is a shift-2, but this is not the character produced. Eventually (trial and error) i discovered that the @ was located on the alt-g key.

when I look at the characters generated from the keyboard, they look like a European keyboard (recognize various keys, and the alt-g for an @ is similar to Swiss French Keyboard mapping).

So it is not a USer langauge probelm, because the user has not been recognized yet (first log in) but seems to be a physical keyboard setting that is no longer set to the US Keyboard mapping.

Thanks for any help.

Hello

Yes I followed all the suggestion you made, but because the problem was not with the language settings but with the ketboard input settings, they did not resolve the problem.

Thanks for the help

Every suggestion is always appreicated.

Hello

Tom

Thanks for the suggestion (was not even aware that that option was available).

turned it on, and sure enought the input keyboard on sign in was set to Swiss French (not sure where that came from) and I have been able to change it to US as needed.

Thanks for the help.