Dealing with Switzerland keyboard

[Tony]

chombee wrote:
> So I got a replacement Thinkpad T23 laptop keyboard for my Thinkpad T21,
> and when it arrived it turned out to be a Swiss keyboard. At least I
> think thats what it is, and thats what GNOME detects it as. The Y and Z
> have swapped places, there are various accent keys with 4 or 5 different
> characters on them where things like ;[:{ are on a UK keyboard, etc.
>
> At first I tried to get used to the layout, but theres no exclamation
> mark, theres an @ underneath the 2 that I cant see how to use, etc. So
> in GNOME keyboard prefs I just set the layout to UK. This worked fine
> except for one key, the key that should now do a tick mark, and that has
> four letter a characters with different hats and a { drawn on it. This
> key does nothing if I press it once, if I tap it twice it does this ´,
> and if I tap it then another key in quick succession I sometimes get a
> character with a hat over it.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make this key behave like a normal UK tick
> key?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>   
Pity you are on the other side of the pond as i have a IBM 2647-5mu 
sitting here with a dead drive it has the US keyboard "maybe better than 
swiss?" and a lot of other usable parts.
 I was just wondering what to do with it as some one gave it to me and 
it was working up until a couple of weeks ago when the drive died so 
other than needing a new hard drive the rest of the laptop should be usable.

Tony D