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Recently the [@] and [“] symbols produced by the keyboard are swapped on screen. When I type [@] symbol, it shows [“] double quote symbol and vice-versa. My hash key has also changed to English Pounds. I've tried changing languages but this hasn't worked.

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Recently the [@] and [“] symbols produced by the keyboard are swapped on screen. When I type [@] symbol, it shows [“] double quote symbol and vice-versa. My hash key has also changed to English Pounds. I've tried changing languages but this hasn't worked.

Recently the [@] and [“] symbols produced by the keyboard are swapped on screen. When I type [@] symbol, it shows [“] double quote symbol and vice-versa. My hash key has also changed to English Pounds. I've tried changing languages but this hasn't worked.

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It is possible that you have switched the keyboard layout by accident.

  • Make sure that you have the Language bar visible on the Windows Taskbar.
  • You can do that via the right-click context menu of the Taskbar: Toolbars > Language Bar.
  • Check the keyboard language (keyboard layout) setting for the application that has focus via the icon on the Language bar.
  • You need to do that while Firefox has focus because Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application.
  • The default keys to rotate the layout is a combination (Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift) that can easily be used in Firefox to activate a menu item.
  • To avoid an unintentional switch assign a specific key sequence (Alt/Ctrl+Shift+number) to select keyboard layouts and remove the key combination to rotate layouts (Alt+Shift or Ctr+Shift)

Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards and Languages > Change keyboards > Advanced key settings > Change key sequence