OS X Keyboard help

Hi everybody!

since i just bought a mac, i've been having some issues (one of them since yesterday evening) with my keyboard. Since i know pretty much nothing yet about the keyboard i have two questions.

1) How can i type square brackets? Am i blind not finding them on the keyboard?

2) Here's the bigger deal: for some reason yesterday evening, i managed to reverse the shiftlock & numpad functions. What i mean is, before yesterday evening i could type normally type lowercase letters with having activate a special function and i could type numbers by holding shift. Now, i can't type anything without activating by default the numpad key (F6) and the shiftlock key. They have both a green glow now.. If i deactivate them i can only type numbers and no letters..

Any help on this? Especially the second prob

#407502

1.) next to p

2.) i dont know..try deactivating universal access stuff because ive had keyboard problems w/ it activated

#407503

1)

Nothing there + i tried that button with no function, with function, with apple function, with shift and with alt.. Nothing works.

2) What do you mean?

#407506

oops >_< i thought you were using a external keyboard. anyways, it looks like you have a different keyboard layout then the us one. i dont know, sry

#407511

Second problem is fixed, i reinstalled shapeshifter universal beta.. seems to be causing some problems First problem (square brackets) still needs some help though! Anyone?

#407528

try Alt Shift on brackets.

#407546

That keyboard layout does look different than US one... but anyways, see if this helps. Try using Shift or Alt on curly bracket keys. Normaly square brackets are located on the same keys as Curly brackets.

#407554

Thanks lae! That's the good combination! Thank you to igo, cause i found a whole lotta new combos now

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