Language layout different in different windows?

Question

For context, i am using a keychron keyboard with a windows desktop PC.

Recently my @ and " have switched around, which is weird because in the keyboard launcher, my language is set to UK, and in windows i have no other language packs installed, only UK english, the layout functions correctly in settings and in start menu, but everywhere else on my PC @ is " and vice versa. any ideas?

Answer 1

Nevermind, as soon as i started installing US to debug it, th language popup showed next to time& date and somehow US was pre selected before it was installed, i reset it to uk and everything seems to be fine

Answer 2

Hello Alex Perry,

Thank you for coming back to update.

What you ran into is that Windows had a US (en-US) keyboard layout sitting underneath your UK English, and that was the layout actually active for normal typing — which is why the swap showed up everywhere except Settings and Start. When that popup let you reset to UK, it switched the active layout back, so the behavior went away. It also explains why it only sorted itself out once you started poking at the language options.

I appreciate you posting the resolution — the "US was somehow pre-selected before I installed it" detail is exactly the clue that'll help the next person who hits this and can't figure out where the US layout is even coming from.