I bought my Mac in Spain. I cannot find change keyboard type in Keyboard preferences. I have set to English language but many keys are physically different.
How do I change the physical layout of the keyboard to standard British keyboard?
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One possibility is to use keyremap4macbook, but this doesn't change the firmware keyboard layout and I don't like fiddling around with such tools if not necessary.
When I tried enabling the setting (Input source options: Allow a different one for each document), new windows seemed to just use the current input source.
Anyway, you could try running sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup\ Assistant and selecting US as the default input method. (You have to go through the steps of creating a new account, but you can delete it later.) It modifies at least /var/root/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox.*.plist.
If that doesn't work, try running sudo languagesetup and selecting English, or sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist AppleLocale en_US and restarting.
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Best Answer
OS X includes an British keyboard layout that you can switch to under
Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources. If you hit the+button and search forBritishit'll come up. That'll give you Apple's version of a British keyboard layout.If you'd like British to match a PC's keyboard, there's a second Apple mapping named
British - PC. This'll put the@and|symbols where they should be in that layout.You might find that Apple's
British - PCkeyboard mapping isn't quite right, as because their British keyboards aren't laid out as a typical British (BS4822) keyboard is. There's a great solution for this with a custom keyboard mapping. The one I linked there works like a charm.