@ sign is gone on Mac Studio

[Oma_Ace]

Hello,

yesterday I set up my new Mac Studio. For the setup I used an old wired original Apple usb keyboard.
During the setup process the @-sign didn‘t work on alt+L. It took me some time to figure out that it is on alt+Q.
Ok, it's because of the old keyboard I thought and after the setup I switched to a new Apple Magic Keyboard.
But the problem is the same. @ is on alt+Q in Monterey. Did I miss something? I'm Apple user for 20 years and want it on alt+L!
Have anybody the same problem?

Best regards

 

[chabig]

What kind of keyboard do you have? What region is your keyboard set for in System Preferences? The @ sign on an American keyboard is shift-2.

 

[DeltaMac]

Don't you have @ on Shift-2?
Ah, OK, different country. I wasn't thinking about that.
Just curious, which country?
Looks like a few languages have alternate keyboard layouts that move that @ to different characters.
Maybe it's just a setting - System Preferences/Keyboard/Input Sources.

 

[GrumpyCoder]

Sounds keyboard layout related. I haven't used a non-US layout (shift-2) in ages, but alt-l and alt-q sounds like a european thing and even then it varies by country.

 

[Oma_Ace]

Ah ok. Didn’t know. I thought it is the same all around the world ;-) Here in Germany it’s alt+L. So my keyboard is set to german layout. Everything else is fine. But I will check that in detail tomorrow in the office. Thanks!

 

[GrumpyCoder]

I thought it's alt-l on a german layout, but wasn't 100% sure. I think the swiss-german layout is alt-q then if I remember correctly.

 

[Thessman]

You can also check it in keyboard viewer.

 

[DeltaMac]

My mBAir with Monterey shows German as Alt-L
German - Standard as Alt-Q
and Swiss German uses Alt-G

I think you will find that it is set for "German-Standard" -- change to German, that should fix it.

 

[Oma_Ace]

It works now! There are two settings. "German" and "German - Standard".
It was set to "German - Standard" and there it's Alt+Q. I switched to "German" and now it's fine.
Thanks for your help!