Yes. The @ and " keys are reversed. If you search around the forum you'll find a post giving a keyboard map you can download into Windows XP that will make your keyboard work properly.
What programs does this apply to? I just opened QuickBooks and Firefox and could type both @ and " with no problem using the normal keys. David MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo OS 10.4.9 Parallels 3188 WinXP Pro SP2
Hmm, you're right. I must be recalling an earlier version. I knew I had installed a Windows remapping utility to handle UK keyboard adaptation, and assumed that was what had fixed the other key mappings, but the keyboard is OK in Linux as well, so I guess I'm out of order. Apologies.
Maybe it has to do with non-U.S. versions of Windows, which I notice that you (and, I assume, the OP) are using. (I am using a U.S. English version.) David
Hello, Try to use CTRL+ALT+2 to print @ . Also what kind of keyboard layout do you have? Best regards, Mike
Its a British thing I think the problem is that the Apple UK keyboard is NOT like a UK PC keyboard with the predictable Apple-and-option-key changes. Its more like a US keyboard with the Pound (hash) sign replaced with Pound (sterling). This means that, compared with a UK PC keyboard the @, double-quote, bar, backslash and tilde symbols are jumbled up and the hash key is totally missing (you have to use option-3). I've recently switched from a using a generic UK PC keyboard with my Mac to an Apple layout and have been bitten by this - under Parallels (XP, 2000, Linux) @ comes out as double-quote etc. Its worse with boot camp - the double-quote maps to some unicode symbol :-( (The PC keyboard was proving an equal pain under OSX since, even if you install a corrected keyboard layout you can't change the default and some applications cause OSX to revert to AppleBritish). There's a windows XP keyboard layout for AppleBritish available at http://www.parkernet.com/applepro/ which fixes the problem for XP. ...but it would be useful if a future Parallels could add the AppleBritish re-mappings to the ctrl/option remappings so we didn't have to find a native solution for each guest OS. I assume that the full layout/keycode details for the Apple UK layout are documented somewhere on the Apple dev site, but it may not be evident that the result is not the same as a UK PC keyboard.
