AltGr not printing correct chars on Swedish keyboard

Tom Gewecke wrote:

Does your hardware keyboard have pipe printed on the key next to left shift?

Thanks again for your reply. My keyboard has this layout, with these markings on the keys:

It's likely that I just haven't had a need for the pipe chars, or other AltGr chars before while using that Swedish layout keyboard, so I was probably wrong as you say.

For coding and shell use, where I use a lot of pipe etc, I use my other (primary) keyboard, which is the US "Apple ABC" layout, so I probably just haven't noticed it before while using the Swedish layout keyboard.

I appreciate your help, I think this was my error. I find it strange though, that Apple doesn't have support for standardized, or de-facto standardized keyboard layouts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY.

I think the only Apple layouts with it there are German Standard (option level) and British PC (shift level).

Here's another user claiming "it used to work": https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62020051/cannot-use-alt-gr-characters-on-swedish-keyboard-e-g-alt-gr-2-should-print

I think that was only in iTerm. Is your problem with all apps, of just some?

Ok, I think it was a slightly ambiguous in the user's question, but yes, it was probably only iTerm. My issue is/was throughout the OS.

Thanks for your reply. I'm pretty sure I've had it correctly mapped before, so that it matches the actual keyboard keys. I haven't had to use any external software. But likely I'm wrong then.

I've mainly used a US layout keyboard, but occasionally use the Swedish layout keyboard, depending on the task I'm performing, so maybe I'm just confused, and it's always been like this.

Here's another user claiming "it used to work": https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62020051/cannot-use-alt-gr-characters-on-swedish-keyboard-e-g-alt-gr-2-should-print

(MacOS occasionally loosing the "<" right of shift altogether made me loose confidence in its capabilities. :-) )

Tom Gewecke wrote:

Otso42 wrote: I find it strange though, that Apple doesn't have support for standardized, or de-facto standardized keyboard layouts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

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Apple hardware keyboard layouts are very often slightly different than Windows layouts.

For example the Finnish standard SFS 5966 (which is practically what my keyboard is), is a standardized keyboard layout. It is not a "Windows layout", it is a standardized keyboard layout. The standard summary is "This standard defines the layout of the basic keys in a general purpose alphanumeric keyboard designed for entering text by primarily Finnish or Swedish speaking users." It does not mention Windows. Both Windows and Linux have support for this standard.