When I use the keyboard the symbols which show on the screen are different to the keys I press. For example the € shows as ' and the @ symbols shows as ... Can anyone help, this happened whilst I was typing a letter.
iMac
rayfrompinner wrote:
I have an iMac which I bought in Italy. So the keyboard may be different
Yes, they are different is just about every country.
So go to system prefs/keyboard/input sources and use the plus and add buttons to add Italian (not Italian typewriter) to the list, and then remove British. Hopefully that will match the hardware with the output.
still not right, now when I type shift 7 I get & instead of / for example.
rayfrompinner wrote:
I Have checked and the input sources is set to British.
In system preferences/keyboard/input sources make sure that Only British is on the list. Then @ should be at Shift 2 and € should be at Option 2. What do you get instead?
HI Tom
thanks, I have now only British in the input sources and yes, I get a & sign and € with the keys you mention. I should have maybe explained better. I have an iMac which I bought in Italy. So the keyboard may be different, to get the € symbol, I used to press alt E, for the @ alt then @. Now alt E. Brings up ' and alt @ shows ... Hope this makes sense. I am just annoyed that I cannot get the keys to correlate to the display....what have I done?
It sounds like you may have the wrong language keyboard selected. You can check by visiting System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input Sources.
HI, keyboard language is fine. The keyboard worked perfectly. Mid email, the key strokes no longer correlated with the display.
rayfrompinner wrote:
..., the key strokes no longer correlated with the display.
And that can happen when the input source is changed.
I Have checked and the input sources is set to British. Should it be British PC? Tried both, but still the keys are wrong. This is driving me nuts!
Tom, thank you, it worked. I now have only Italian on the input sources and all the keys correlate. You are a star!
Keyboard symbols do not match what is typed, for example type / but displays
