Macbook Keyboard layout: change qwertz to qwerty

Is there a way of changing qwertz to qwerty while keeping the general keyboard language setting as is?

Under input sources I could otherwise simply select the US layout, in such case, however, all other characters wouldn’t match my physical Swiss-German keyboard.

Thanks

Phil

MacBook Pro

Posted on Dec 29, 2022 11:53 AM

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1 reply

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

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Dec 29, 2022 01:12 PM in response to PhilZviel

PhilZviel wrote:

Is there a way of changing qwertz to qwerty while keeping the general keyboard language setting as is?

The easiest way is probably to make a custom Swiss German layout which only switches the places of z and y with Ukelele.

https://software.sil.org/ukelele/

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