MacBook Air – UK Keyboard

Arrrrgggg!

When I ordered my MacBook Air the only options I had for keyboard were UK English, and French. No US English when ordering from the UK store you see. So, I was trying to hack around with rcov today, and needed to alter some source. I wanted to copy and edit a line of code, preserving the original. To do this, I was just going to hash out the line, and put my altered line below. That’s where I encountered my issue.

THE UK KEYBOARD LAYOUT HAS NO # SYMBOL PRINTED ON IT!!!!

Luckily I found this page – Hat tip to QuiteTall.

ALT-3 for people who can’t be bothered clicking thru.

I mean come on – the keyboard has symbols such as § and ±, but no #?!?!?!? What’s going on with that?

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This entry was posted on Sunday, February 17th, 2008 at 10:43 am and is filed under apple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  • Sorry, no idea where to get a cover for a UK keyboard layout - are the keys actually in different places? I had assumed they were just relabeled rather than being in physically different locations.
  • angeLovah
    I've been looking for a keyboard cover/skin for my macbook aluminium with UK keyboard but have only been able to find ones that fit the US keyboard. Any ideas where get one that fits the UK keyboard?
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