Click ‘Input Menu’ and select the checkbox next to ‘British - Windows - 2’.
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Next, open System Preferences and click ‘International’.You should make sure to unzip the file by double-clicking it in the Finder, rather than using the command line, as it appears this can corrupt this particular file.
#Map mac keyboard to windows archive#
Download this zip archive or this gzip archive, unzip it, and place the enclosed British-Windows-2.rsrc file in your ‘/Users/yourname/Library/Keyboard Layouts/’ folder (if you don’t have a ‘Keyboard Layouts’ folder there, just create one).While I haven’t had problems with this over the years, I can’t take responsibility for anything that goes wrong if you follow these instructions. Instead, we will use a custom Keyboard Layout to re-map the troublesome keys. Whichever keyboard type it suggests for me, none fix the problem of wrongly-mapped characters. I hoped this would take standard Windows-oriented UK PC keyboards into account, but I’ve had little luck with it.
#Map mac keyboard to windows mac os x#
Moving punctuation keysĪnother addition since Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is the ‘Change Keyboard Type…’ button next to the ‘Modifier Keys…’ button in the ‘Keyboard & Mouse’ preference pane. At some point, certainly in OS X 10.5.5 you can choose these changes to apply to only your external keyboard. In some versions of OS X, these changes apply to all keyboards - so if you have a laptop with a PC keyboard plugged in, you’ll have to re-map the modifier keys whenever you want to use your laptop’s keyboard. Then click the ‘Modifier Keys…’ button in the bottom left. Open the System Preferences application and click ‘Keyboard & Mouse’. UControl doesn’t work on Mac OS X 10.4+ (Tiger), but Apple has built a similar feature into the System Preferences. If you’re using Mac OS X 10.0.1 - 10.3.8, then uControl lets you swap and change the Command, Option and Control keys around via a moderately friendly System Preferences pane. If you want more background information you might find useful stuff there. This page supersedes two older versions of these instructions ( version 1, version 2). Read comments from here for more information. This gzipped layout is reported to work fine. UPDATE: Many of these methods have problems with Snow Leopard. Each of these problems needs to be tackled separately…
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In addition the Command (Apple), Option and Control keys may be swapped round. and ” are generally swapped, for example. If you have a Mac and want to use a keyboard that’s designed to be used with a British Windows-based PC, you’ll notice that some of the keys don’t produce the expected characters.