Mac keyboard messed up in El Capitan? Here's how to fix it

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Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously (show all) Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.

Today I went to type £ (British pound) and a € (euro) symbols on my Mac (with British keyboard settings) and found I got a @ and # instead. Whaaaa? The key mappings had got messed up, something I’d never noticed happening before. It turns out I wasn’t alone.

If you use a non-US keyboard while running OS X El Capitan, and you have noticed that the key combinations for certain symbols aren’t working correctly (for example, option + 2 should produce a €, not an @), it’s easy to fix.

Simply go to: System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources. Then click ‘+’ and add your local standard keyboard.

Voila! All is right with the world again. A presumably accidental oversight from Apple is fixed.

[Thanks, Brad Brooks]

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