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While I haven’t had problems with this over the years, I can’t take responsibility for anything that goes wrong if you follow these instructions.

Instead, we will use a custom Keyboard Layout to re-map the troublesome keys. Whichever keyboard type it suggests for me, none fix the problem of wrongly-mapped characters. I hoped this would take standard Windows-oriented UK PC keyboards into account, but I’ve had little luck with it. Moving punctuation keysĪnother addition since Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is the ‘Change Keyboard Type…’ button next to the ‘Modifier Keys…’ button in the ‘Keyboard & Mouse’ preference pane. At some point, certainly in OS X 10.5.5 you can choose these changes to apply to only your external keyboard. In some versions of OS X, these changes apply to all keyboards - so if you have a laptop with a PC keyboard plugged in, you’ll have to re-map the modifier keys whenever you want to use your laptop’s keyboard. Then click the ‘Modifier Keys…’ button in the bottom left. Open the System Preferences application and click ‘Keyboard & Mouse’. UControl doesn’t work on Mac OS X 10.4+ (Tiger), but Apple has built a similar feature into the System Preferences. If you’re using Mac OS X 10.0.1 - 10.3.8, then uControl lets you swap and change the Command, Option and Control keys around via a moderately friendly System Preferences pane. If you want more background information you might find useful stuff there. This page supersedes two older versions of these instructions ( version 1, version 2).

Read comments from here for more information. This gzipped layout is reported to work fine. UPDATE: Many of these methods have problems with Snow Leopard. Each of these problems needs to be tackled separately… In addition the Command (Apple), Option and Control keys may be swapped round. and ” are generally swapped, for example. If you have a Mac and want to use a keyboard that’s designed to be used with a British Windows-based PC, you’ll notice that some of the keys don’t produce the expected characters.