@ won't work wit spanish keyboard

spiritglove · 05-23-2012, 06:00 PM

I have a friend with a new MacBook Pro, he is spanish and changed the Mac os over to the spanish language. Now the @ will not fiunction in the normal sense after pressing the shift key and the 2(@) key. The @ works fine when you switch back to english. Is there another way to use the @ with the spanish language OS??

DeltaMac · 05-23-2012, 07:40 PM

Change the keyboard layout to "Spanish ISO". That will leave you with very few differences with the US keyboard, as printed on the keys, and (I think) leaves the @ in the same position (Shift-2)
If there are other differences, then you would open the Language & Text pref pane, then the Input Sources tab - and check the box "Keyboard & Character Viewer)
That will give you a flag menu, where you select the Keyboard Viewer.
Then you will have an on-screen keyboard, where you can press each key, and tell where all characters and symbols are - just press shift, or option/alt, or command, etc, and the on-screen keyboard will change to show what each key does.

05-23-2012, 06:00 PM	#1
spiritglove Prospect Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 1	@ won't work wit spanish keyboard I have a friend with a new MacBook Pro, he is spanish and changed the Mac os over to the spanish language. Now the @ will not fiunction in the normal sense after pressing the shift key and the 2(@) key. The @ works fine when you switch back to english. Is there another way to use the @ with the spanish language OS??

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05-23-2012, 07:40 PM	#2
DeltaMac League Commissioner Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 7,963	Change the keyboard layout to "Spanish ISO". That will leave you with very few differences with the US keyboard, as printed on the keys, and (I think) leaves the @ in the same position (Shift-2) If there are other differences, then you would open the Language & Text pref pane, then the Input Sources tab - and check the box "Keyboard & Character Viewer) That will give you a flag menu, where you select the Keyboard Viewer. Then you will have an on-screen keyboard, where you can press each key, and tell where all characters and symbols are - just press shift, or option/alt, or command, etc, and the on-screen keyboard will change to show what each key does.