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I have a new Raspberry Pi, when I try to type double quotes by using shift and the single quote buttons on the keyboard, I get an @ symbol. When I do shift + 2, I get the double quotes. A few different keys are like this. How do I change this back to normal keyboard orientation?

Jordan.J.D
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run sudo raspi-config and setup your Locale and Keyboard. These are located under Internationalisation Options

Milliways
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    Thanks, this worked well. sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

    brought me directly to the keyboard config.

     – Jordan.J.D Dec 20 '13 at 04:03
  • Didn't work for me. I changed the locale from en_GB.UTF-8 to en_US.UTF-8 and reselected the Dell keyboard, but @ and quote are still swapped. – personal_cloud Aug 10 '19 at 05:21
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Quote and @ get swapped if you're using a US keyboard with your locale set to UK. To fix: (FIXME why doesn't stackexchange support code in numbered lists?)

ONE. Update raspi-config (I'm not sure if this step is really necessary)

TWO. Enable US locale. raspi-config does not do this (details)

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
update-locale en_US.UTF-8

THREE. Go into raspi-config option 4 (Localization Options) -> Change Keyboard Layout

  • select your keyboard
  • If "English (US)" is not shown (probably not -- that was the issue) go find it in Other, and select it. This brings you back to the main keyboard layout menu, where now "English (US)" is available.
  • Finally, select "English (US)" again in the main keyboard layout menu.
  • Select "OK" for the remaining options.
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