Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong

From	Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong
Date	2017-03-25 10:57 +0000
Message-ID	<ejn0p6F5q14U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<ejmqf6F4j7hU1@mid.individual.net> <250320170955447350%timstreater@greenbee.net>

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On 2017-03-25 09:55:44 +0000, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> said:

> In article <ejmqf6F4j7hU1@mid.individual.net>, Ian McCall
> <ian@eruvia.org> wrote:
> 
>> Odd one. I have a model A1234 Mac wired keyboard (the one with the 
>> number pad). All of it works except a single key - 'x'. Instead of 
>> typing an 'x', it types a '`' (backtick) character instead.
>> 
>> I find this really odd - can understand several keys being wrong as 
>> maybe being a membrane or controller issue. But just one? It's 
>> consistent across multiple machines as well.
>> 
>> Is there anything on the keyboard itself that could be causing multiple 
>> machine to recognise it this way? Would like to know before I go to the 
>> inevitable unscrew-the-keyboard-and-poke-about stage (invariably 
>> leading to the "damn, needs throwing away" stage).
> 
> What does Keyboard Viewer show?

Can't find Keyboard Viewer anymore - odd (using Sierra). In keyboard 
preferences, input sources shows me as using a British keyboard layout, 
with zx in the right place.


Cheers,
Ian

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Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-25 09:09 +0000
  Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-03-25 09:43 +0000
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-25 10:45 +0000
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-03-25 22:11 +0100
      Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-03-25 21:58 +0000
        Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-03-27 01:13 +0200
        Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-27 16:13 +0100
  Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-25 09:55 +0000
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-25 10:57 +0000
  Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong pfjames@google.com (PeteFJ) - 2017-03-26 08:29 +0100
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-26 09:38 +0100
      Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B) - 2017-03-26 10:41 +0100
  Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-03-27 10:49 +0100
    Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2017-03-27 12:54 +0100
      Re: Apple wired keyboard - single letter wrong Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-03-27 16:12 +0100

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