How to identify keyboard localizations

  • Last Modified: August 19, 2008
  • Article: HT2841
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Summary

The list below shows how the keys on each keyboard localization looks for desktop Macs. Portable built-in keyboards do not include a numeric keypad, and may have slight variations.

Products Affected

Keyboards

You can see where characters are located on keyboards used for other languages, including what characters are produced when using the shift and option keys, by following the instructions from these articles:

Mac OS X 10.3 Help:

Finding characters for different languages on your keyboard

Mac OS X 10.4 Help:

About Keyboard Viewer

Country list

 
Tip: Click a keyboard image below to see the full-size keyboard.

Belgian

British

Danish

Dutch

French

French Canadian

German

International English

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Norwegian

Portuguese

Spanish

Swedish

Swiss Multilingual

Taiwanese

Thai

U.S.

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