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A Proper British Key­board Layout
for OS X

Macs are fabulous, really they are. But I’m a touch-typist, and I really would rather not have to think too hard about exactly who manu­fac­tured the keyboard I’m typing on. I’m used to proper British keyboards, and I expect my ‘#’, ‘"’ and ‘@’ to be in their usual places. Apple seems to think differently about the matter, with their bastardised excuse of a ‘British’ keyboard.

Here are a couple of keyboard layout files you can simply unzip, and move to the /Library/Keyboard Layouts folder. (Create the folder if it’s not there already.) You’ll need to log out and back in for the new layouts to become available. In certain situations you might find the ‘`’ and ‘\’ keys to be swapped, in which case the alternative layout is the one for you.