My Mac wireless keyboard is typing the wrong characters

Hi all

All of a sudden my keyboard wireless mac type "instead of @ shift 2"

ALT 3 product also only sign £ instead of #.

any advice most welcome. My setting preferably keyboard displays 3 options - British; British and French PC. None seems to make no difference to the foregoing.

I have a 21.5 inch iMac running El Capitan

Thank you very much

Richard

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All of a sudden my keyboard wireless mac type "instead of @ shift 2"

This means that your keyboard is set to British PC rather than British.  Go to the sources of the system/preferences/keyboard and remove PC British, so it cannot become active.

Your keyboard must be indicated in the menu 'flag' in the top right of the screen.  You click to select another.

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