macOs: keys </> being swapped with §/± without any active modification

[pedrofoliveira]

Hi,
I've removed all modifications from my profile and even removed the "karabiner.json" file but, as soon as I start KarabinerElements the key </> gets swapped with the key §/±.
I'm running macOs 12.1 and macOs 10.15.7 (same behaviour) with a DasKeyboard for Mac.
With Apple's keyboard I don't have this issue.
If I shutdown Karabiner the issue goes away.

[Muirium]

Sounds like a keyboard language layout issue. Lots of languages move those keys around.

Try opening System Preferences, going into Keyboard, and then Input Sources. See what layouts are active.

[pedrofoliveira]

Hi John, Thank you very much for the feedback. I’ve solved it by entering ‘1’ in ‘Virtual keyboard -> Country code’. Great tool ;-) Regards, Pedro

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[Muirium]

You’re welcome. Enjoy!

[tanuva]

This world is a fascinating place. I've been seeing this issue for months but never got around to proper research to create an issue here. Now I come to Github, click Issues and find the solution right here, posted a day ago. Wee! \o/

Meant to say: Increasing the country code to 1 fixed it for me, too. This triggers macOS's keyboard identification dialog, maybe that's part of it.

[kogaba]

I have similar issue with hungarian keyboard.
the "í" and "0" is swapped either on internal or external keyboard.
in event viewer: non_us_backslash and grave_accent_and_tilde

if I trigger the "keyboard identification dialog" as @tanuva mentioned, I can choose: I push the "í" on external or internal keyboard. "í' is the key next to left shift. and the zero is above the tabulator.
So whatever keyboard I choose, the other will be swapped. As a workaround I added basic rules to swap them back