Gotta be an easy answer to this....

[Binoculars]

Whenever I try to type @ I get ".

As you can understand, I've had to type the reverse in to make this point. Each @ thingy is " interchangeable. All other strange thingys appear normal. Help?

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

Binoculars,

Check which Language your Keyboard is currently set to.

Take Care,

Richard

[PPRuNe Pop]

Then of course if you type " you will get @

The language change that Richard mentions will do the trick.

[Binoculars]

Well, we appear to be on the right track, and that would explain the odd icon that's appeared in my task bar. Why any of the Binoettes would have been in there at all is beyond me, but anyway, I changed it to English (British) from English (American) to see if that would make any difference and it didn't.

What language should I be in? Afrikaans?

Edit: Hang on, just remembered B4 asked if she could download a program to enable her to type in Japanese. Obviously some connection here, but just what I still don't know. Microsoft Global IME was apparently the program. Any further suggestions?

[redsnail]

I am sure others will help more. It sounds like the keyboard info has been changed. A UK/British keyboard has a different layout to an Australian/American one. Notably, the @ sign is in a different place. 'Bout the same place you'll find the ". So a "British" layout won't help. I think there's a difference between the language versus what the keyboard will understand.
I am sorry I can't offer further, I am learning "mac-speak"

[Ausatco]

Binos

Try:

Control Panel/Regional and Languages Settings/Languages tab/Details button.

Try setting Language to English(Australian) - US International

and keyboard to US.


I think you can change that from the Keyboard applet in Control Panel, but my applet has become customised with an A4Tech keyboard driver and seems a bit different. Your mileage may vary.

If I leave my language setting as is (US International) and change the keyboard from US to US International, then I can do wierd things like French characters with accents and letter o with two dots on top, but only in applications. The quotes/apotrophe key is "key" for this. eg quotes followed by letter o gives o with two dots on top (ö). Apostrophe e give the French e acute (é) . Apostrophe c gives the French c cedilla (ç). Those examples were cut and paste from notepad - this board won't let me demo it direct.

I tried to replicate your problem with the @ character, but couldn't get anything too wierd. Apostrophe@ and quotes@ gave '@ and "@ - nothing too unordinary about that, except that nothing appeared on screen until the @ was pressed, but that's how the International keyboard works.

If you're running XP it's easier if you activate the Languages toolbar. Both settings are easily available from there - there are seperate icons for Language and Keyboard.

Hope this steers you in a direction from which you ccan fix things.

AA

[Binoculars]

Thanks AA, problem solved.

(Hey Reddo, I thought Macs were so simple you just started using them immediately? )

[redsnail]

Bino's
They are ridiculously easy to use. However, there are a couple of things they do in a slightly different way to Windoze and I am learning how it does that. Also, I am learning the keyboard short cuts instead of using the trackpad etc to do things. Naturally, that takes time, I have noted though, that the short cuts are very similar to that of Windoze. Who copied who?
You wouldn't have believed how easy it was to connect to the net.

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

Binoculars,

I am glad to hear you are all set.

Take Care,

Richard