Nice easy dollar/pound keyboard problem!

[Wandering Star]

Nice and easy it may be for you intelligent people but impossible for me.

My PC wireless keyboard has a $ sign, a £ sign, also " and @ signs that don't function properly.

The dollar $ works.
The pound £ sign displays a $ sign.
The " sign displays an @ sign and vice versa.

How do I get the keyboard to display the correct sign in particular to display the £ sign when the £ sign is pressed as at the moment I have no way of typing the £ sign. The other keys I can of course get used to using back to front. Is there a way to permanently remap the keyboard?

This post is typed on my iPad which is fine - as you'd expect from Apple!

cheers, Brian.

 

[sailorman]

Nice and easy it may be for you intelligent people but impossible for me.

My PC wireless keyboard has a $ sign, a £ sign, also " and @ signs that don't function properly.

The dollar $ works.
The pound £ sign displays a $ sign.
The " sign displays an @ sign and vice versa.

How do I get the keyboard to display the correct sign in particular to display the £ sign when the £ sign is pressed as at the moment I have no way of typing the £ sign. The other keys I can of course get used to using back to front. Is there a way to permanently remap the keyboard?

This post is typed on my iPad which is fine - as you'd expect from Apple!

cheers, Brian.

change key bd settings to UK ???????

 

[lustyd]

In Windows 7 it's "Control Panel", "Clock, Language and region", "Change keyboards or other input methods", "Change Keyboards".

You may need to click Add to add in English UK, click apply and then change the drop down at the top to "English (United Kingdom)"

Windows XP it's similar (regional settings) but I don't have one to hand to guide you through, sorry.

 

[KellysEye]

Flobbergob did that work. Thr reason I ask is we bought a notebook in Portugal and 18 keys give the wrong thing. It is set to UK English, so I haven't found a solution.

 

[Dave_Seager]

One of my PCs has a USA keyboard. If I configure this as a US keyboard then I do not have the "£" symbols and'"' and "@" are not where I expect them to be. For this reason, I configure it as a UK keyboard and ignore the special characters shown on the key tops. Fortunately, most of the alphabet is still correct. I have Windows configured to give me a shortcut so that I can quickly change the settings between US and UK keyboards when I need to find a special character that I cannot locate easily.

If you have a Portugese keyboard then setting Windows to treat it as a Portugese keyboard will make it work correctly. However, you may find that it is then missing some characters that you need or some characters are not where you are used to finding them. Some Portugese keyboards have the alphabet laid out differently but I think that these are unusual.

 

[TQA]

There is a utility called Keytweak which enables you to map any key to do anything. Not hard to use.

Mr google will find it for you.

This will fix your problem.

 

[sigmasailor]

Try: 'Ctrl' and 'Shift' (on the left) pressed together and try again

 

[Steve Clayton]

For the £ sign you can key in the ascii equivalent; hold down the control (no, it's the Alt) key and tap in 1 6 3 and then release the control (no, it's the Alt) key.

There is a built in onscreen keyboard. Do a computer search for a file "osk" and then run the .exe file . The onscreen keyboard can be toggled on and off

 

[sigmasailor]

Are you sure it is in combination with Ctrl; on my PC it works with Alt. This results in alt 163 by the way: ú

 

[Steve Clayton]

Are you sure it is in combination with Ctrl; on my PC it works with Alt. This results in alt 163 by the way: ú

Yr rite; its alt knot control

I took the aski code frum hear
http://www.ascii-code.com/

 

[trapezeartist]

One of my PCs has a USA keyboard. If I configure this as a US keyboard then I do not have the "£" symbols and'"' and "@" are not where I expect them to be. For this reason, I configure it as a UK keyboard and ignore the special characters shown on the key tops. Fortunately, most of the alphabet is still correct. I have Windows configured to give me a shortcut so that I can quickly change the settings between US and UK keyboards when I need to find a special character that I cannot locate easily.

If you have a Portugese keyboard then setting Windows to treat it as a Portugese keyboard will make it work correctly. However, you may find that it is then missing some characters that you need or some characters are not where you are used to finding them. Some Portugese keyboards have the alphabet laid out differently but I think that these are unusual.

I'll second that. I have a Spanish laptop with a mixture of Spanish and English software (including the W7 OS). I have it normally set to English language input and Spanish keyboard. I couldn't type anything if the keys did something different to what they say! The only useful thing missing from the Spanish keyboard is £, so I have an English keyboard set as an option. There is an icon in the Windows toolbar that lets me swap with one click.

In Windows 7, you go to Control Panel, Region & Language to change the settings.