how to place @ correctly on a french macbook keyboard in winXP parallels?

I'm using Parallels desktop 2.5 with WinXPro on a french MacBookpro.

On this machine the basic keyboard mapping is correctly translated into the PC, maybe just because I also use a french version of XP, but outside the ordinary letters, all characters like "@" or "-" are visibly expected to be where they are on a PC keyboard (for instance the - is on key 6 where on the mac it is 10 cm right of this key, against the delete key).

How could I remap the PC keyboard so that it expects the right characters on the mac's places?

I found indications here and there on internet according to which one can create a different windows keymap, and install it, I even found some specific keymaps intended to adapt windows to macintosh UK keyboards for instance, but I didn't find one for french keyboards, nor did I find a simple keymap editor...

Any advice?

Thank you!
Hervé

 

I am using a danish WinXp sp2 OEM om an english mac book pro with an with usb danish keyboard and an MS mouse

when I can't remember the @ I just copy paste it from any convenient spot

on the mac or on the web

In the genealogy community Stephen Morse is a master of indexing and deep linking - in fact web data-mining wourl be a newer name s for it

http://hughw36.blogspot.com/2007/02/important-census-tools-and-databases.html

on
http://stevemorse.org/


he has
Virtual Keyboard: Typing Special Characters of any Latin-based Alphabet in One Step

http://stevemorse.org/hebrew/virtual.html
and
Click on the characters you want to type

enjoy

Hugh W

 

Thank you Hugh for this very interesting site!
In the meanwhile, I found a prefab keymap file for my french keyboard.
In case it helps others:
http://www.florentpillet.com/files/MacFrenchKeyboardLayoutForWindows.zip

(let's add some french here to help possible searches: "adaptation clavier mac français pour windows XP dans parallels. tout est dedans y compris les explications")

Thanks again,
Hervé