Timeline for How to configure Norwegian Windows keyboard on a Mac? Should display @, not ™
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| Apr 9 at 9:00 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Tom Yes, keyboard layouts are always your friend. I just wanted to clarify that what makes the system interpret which physical keys correspond to which characters on screen is determined by software (i.e., keyboard layouts being interpreted by the OS), not by the keyboard itself. Many people aren’t even aware that there is such a thing as keyboard layouts and just assume that what’s printed on the keys is the character that the keyboard sends to the computer. | |
| Apr 9 at 4:11 | comment | added | Tom Gewecke | @JanusBahsJacquet. For someone who needs to use an Apple keyboard with Windows, there are fortunately a number of Windows layouts available that match output with the printing on the keys.. See magicutilities.net/magic-keyboard/help/keyboard-layouts | |
| Apr 8 at 23:49 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet |
@Peter The same is also true in reverse: if you take an Apple keyboard (which has the @ character printed next to æ as shown in the screen shot in the answer) and plug it into a Windows machine, you won’t be able to type an at-sign by hitting that key either – you’ll have to press (Right) Alt + 2. Keyboards don’t actually know anything about which character you’re going for, they just send specific codes for specific keys, and the OS then uses the information about the selected (software) keyboard layout to map those codes to specific characters.
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| Apr 8 at 14:59 | vote | accept | Peter | ||
| Apr 8 at 14:30 | comment | added | Tom Gewecke | @Peter That's right, at least in the case of Norwegian. For some keyboards, Apple provides an input source tailored to the Windows version. "British PC" is an example. | |
| Apr 8 at 14:23 | comment | added | Peter | Okay thanks, so you're saying that even though Mac recognized the Windows keyboard, there is no build-in way to get all the characters printed on the keyboard to match with characters produced on screen? | |
| Apr 8 at 14:04 | history | edited | Tom Gewecke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added picture, fixed
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| Apr 8 at 13:58 | history | edited | Tom Gewecke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 8 at 13:56 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 8 at 13:51 | history | answered | Tom Gewecke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |