I’m telecommuting today, so I’m connected to my office PC on my old iMac G3.
When I am not in the RDC window and type a number sign on my Mac, I get a number sign. When I am in the RDC window (i.e., using my office desktop PC) and type the number sign (shift+3) I get a £ pound sterling sign. As far as I can tell in System Preferences my computer is set up for a U.S. keyboard. When I check the Control Panel on the PC it says it’s a U.S. keyboard. So why am I getting the pound sterling sign?
One reason I’m using the G3 today (aside from that it’s on an actual desk and has a full-sized keyboard) is that when I was on the PowerBook earlier that keyboard was acting funky too. For example, when I’d hit shift+2 instead of a double-quote I got an at-sign, and when I tried to do an at-sign I’d get a double quote. Now that I look, it seems to be doing it here too.
My office PC had some sort of scheduled update this morning and I had to restart. But why would the keys suddenly change?
Whoops. Of course it’s doing it here. I’m on SDMB via the PC.
Keyboard map changed inadvertently perhaps?
Possibly, but I don’t know how I would have done it. And I wouldn’t know how to re-map it. (Unless to just click ‘restore default’ or something.)
EDIT: I just checked the International settings in System Preferences. U.S. is checked. I also have a little american flag up on the top of the display.
OK, I called the office.
As I said this morning there was a scheduled update. When I’m on VPN/RDC I can’t restart or shut down my computer. But the System update dialog box had a button to restart, so I clicked it. It was after that that the problems began. (It was fine on Friday.)
So my coworker restarted my computer from there. She got a message saying that someone else was logged onto my computer. Now, I’d logged off the PowerBook a long time ago. I logged off from the iMac before I called her. I told her to clik OK.
The PC restarted and I reconnected from here. Problem solved! Look, here’s shift+2: @. And here’s shift+3: #. And here’s my pipe: |.
So I suspect that I was still logged on after I told System update it could restart. Somehow that made the keyboard wonky. By rebooting the office computer, my coworker expelled my ‘ghost’ that had been hanging around all morning and things went back to normal.
