jochen Houbrechts
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How can you make the @ sign in Windows xp. By typing on a mac-keyboard
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@ sign
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AlanH said:Yes. The @ and " keys are reversed.
What programs does this apply to? I just opened QuickBooks and Firefox and could type both @ and " with no problem using the normal keys.
David
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo
OS 10.4.9
Parallels 3188
WinXP Pro SP2
Eru Ithildur
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Ditto here, David.
AlanH said:Hmm, you're right. I must be recalling an earlier version. I knew I had installed a Windows remapping utility to handle UK keyboard adaptation, and assumed that was what had fixed the other key mappings, but the keyboard is OK in Linux as well, so I guess I'm out of order.
Maybe it has to do with non-U.S. versions of Windows, which I notice that you (and, I assume, the OP) are using. (I am using a U.S. English version.)
David
Mike@Parallels
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Hello,
Try to use CTRL+ALT+2 to print @ . Also what kind of keyboard layout do you have?
Best regards,
Mike
Try to use CTRL+ALT+2 to print @ . Also what kind of keyboard layout do you have?
Best regards,
Mike
Its a British thing
I think the problem is that the Apple UK keyboard is NOT like a UK PC keyboard with the predictable Apple-and-option-key changes.
Its more like a US keyboard with the Pound (hash) sign replaced with Pound (sterling).
This means that, compared with a UK PC keyboard the @, double-quote, bar, backslash and tilde symbols are jumbled up and the hash key is totally missing (you have to use option-3).
I've recently switched from a using a generic UK PC keyboard with my Mac to an Apple layout and have been bitten by this - under Parallels (XP, 2000, Linux) @ comes out as double-quote etc. Its worse with boot camp - the double-quote maps to some unicode symbol :-(
(The PC keyboard was proving an equal pain under OSX since, even if you install a corrected keyboard layout you can't change the default and some applications cause OSX to revert to AppleBritish).
There's a windows XP keyboard layout for AppleBritish available at http://www.parkernet.com/applepro/ which fixes the problem for XP.
...but it would be useful if a future Parallels could add the AppleBritish re-mappings to the ctrl/option remappings so we didn't have to find a native solution for each guest OS.
I assume that the full layout/keycode details for the Apple UK layout are documented somewhere on the Apple dev site, but it may not be evident that the result is not the same as a UK PC keyboard.
I think the problem is that the Apple UK keyboard is NOT like a UK PC keyboard with the predictable Apple-and-option-key changes.
Its more like a US keyboard with the Pound (hash) sign replaced with Pound (sterling).
This means that, compared with a UK PC keyboard the @, double-quote, bar, backslash and tilde symbols are jumbled up and the hash key is totally missing (you have to use option-3).
I've recently switched from a using a generic UK PC keyboard with my Mac to an Apple layout and have been bitten by this - under Parallels (XP, 2000, Linux) @ comes out as double-quote etc. Its worse with boot camp - the double-quote maps to some unicode symbol :-(
(The PC keyboard was proving an equal pain under OSX since, even if you install a corrected keyboard layout you can't change the default and some applications cause OSX to revert to AppleBritish).
There's a windows XP keyboard layout for AppleBritish available at http://www.parkernet.com/applepro/ which fixes the problem for XP.
...but it would be useful if a future Parallels could add the AppleBritish re-mappings to the ctrl/option remappings so we didn't have to find a native solution for each guest OS.
I assume that the full layout/keycode details for the Apple UK layout are documented somewhere on the Apple dev site, but it may not be evident that the result is not the same as a UK PC keyboard.