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UK keyboard layout fix

UK keyboard layout fix - 050218

fixes UK keyboard mapping of @

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Selected Version: 050218
Release Date: 2005-02-18
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 050218): 160
Downloads (all versions): 4,645

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Product Description:

The standard British key layout makes a UK-issue Apple keyboard work as it should do, but for some of us who have typed on non-Apple keyboards our whole lives - or for those Mac owners who are using a third-party keyboard - the Apple standard layout doesn't feel quite right. Shift+2 gives you @, whereas on every normal keyboard it gives you ". This file changes the layout the keyboard so that it behaves like every other UK keyboard on the planet. Changed characters: @ " \ | # ~ £ How to install: 1. Unzip archive 2. Copy UK.keylayout to /Library/Keyboard Layouts 3. Logout and back in 4. Go to System Preferences/International/Input Menu 5. Scroll down half-way to UK, check 6. Scroll back to top, uncheck previous setting Done.

What's new in this version:

Added Shift+3 -> £

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.2 or above

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UK keyboard layout fix Reviewgood - Version: 070426, 10/7/2008 02:15PM PST

vimtohead
excellent does the job. The keyboard mapping has irritated me for so long!
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UK keyboard layout fix ReviewMac's keyboard is standard - Version: 050306, 1/13/2007 07:41AM PST

houghton
No criticism of the product intended but what this does is create a non-standard keyboard - that used by PCs in the UK. The way Macs keyboards are is normal. Its PCs in the UK that are odd.
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UK keyboard layout fix Troubleshooting ReportTiger keeps changing back - Version: 050306, 8/24/2006 02:09AM PST

mlarnes
Excellent piece of software, enabled me to use my old PC keyboard on the Mac, something Apple have never offered any solution for despite the simplicity and utility.

One problem, (possibly since a recent auto-update) the keyboard layout doesn't stay configured! After setting it, a couple of minutes later Tiger decides to go back to the US keyboard layout. Thanks a lot Apple! Don't think you will force me to pay out good money for one of your stinking keyboards yet!
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