MacOs broken keyboard layout

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MacOs broken keyboard layout

Not sure how but my Macbook pro M1 is confused about different keyboard layouts. I am using a US layout magic keyboard, the built in keyboard is British.

Problem: pressing the tilde key results in §. I want pressing tilde to output tilde.

On British keyboards, the key to the left of 1 is §. On American keyboards, the key to the left of 1 is tilde.

Going to System preference > Keyboard > Input sources and switching between US and British has no effect. They look exactly the same (picture attached).

Everything worked find previously, I'm not sure what has changed.

Currently I have a work around in Karabiner so that I have tilde working again but why is my Mac being so stupid?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Oct 31, 2022 01:03 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 31, 2022 02:57 PM in response to kbd_fan

kbd_fan wrote:

On British keyboards, the key to the left of 1 is §. On American keyboards, the key to the left of 1 is tilde.

If your hardware keyboard is the ISO (European) type, as your prictures show, with the extra key next to Z and the vertical Return key, both the US and British input sources have § under escape and ~ to the left of Z.

Is your Magic keyboard different than your built-in keyboard, the ANSI (US) type without the key next to Z and with a horizontal return key?

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