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#KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC ON A WINDOWS KEYBOARD MAC OS X#
#KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC ON A WINDOWS KEYBOARD ARCHIVE#
#KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC ON A WINDOWS KEYBOARD PC#
#KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC ON A WINDOWS KEYBOARD WINDOWS#

#KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC ON A WINDOWS KEYBOARD WINDOWS#

Follow the same procedure above, but use this ‘windows-uk.keylayout’ file instead of the ‘British - Windows - 2’ layout.Īgain, if you have a laptop and want to use its own keyboard, you’ll have to use the Input Menu to manually change back to whichever Keyboard Layout you were using before (simply ‘British’ in my case). If the \ and ` are now the wrong way round then try this alternative layout by Andy Pearce, available in zip, gzip or uncompressed formats, created with Ukelele. You might need to log out and back in again (or restart your Mac). Hopefully your keys should now be re-mapped successfully: try typing! This layout swaps ” and and also the ` and \ keys.

Now you should be able to select the ‘British - Windows - 2’ keyboard layout from the little icon towards the right of the menu bar.

Make sure the checkbox at the bottom of the window, next to ‘Show input menu in menu bar’, is selected and then quit System Preferences.

Click ‘Input Menu’ and select the checkbox next to ‘British - Windows - 2’.

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.

#KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC ON A WINDOWS KEYBOARD 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.

#KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC ON A WINDOWS KEYBOARD PC#

I hoped this would take standard Windows-oriented UK PC keyboards into account, but I’ve had little luck with it.

#KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC ON A WINDOWS KEYBOARD 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… 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.