A real UK keyboard layout for Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”

Thanks to this blogger who made real UK keyboard layouts that work under Snow Leopard. I couldn’t get alternative community created UK layouts, that previously worked in Leopard, to work under Snow Leopard. They would never appear as a selectable layout in ‘Language & Text’ » ‘Input Sources’. Maybe because I tried to installed them under /Library/Keyboard Layouts instead of my user specific directory (~/Library/Keyboard Layouts). The author of the post admits he encountered the same problem.

I’m just relieved to have # ~ ” \ back in their rightful places. As a developer ALT+3 for # is like pulling teeth (thank god I don’t do much Perl programming!).

What’s that? Switch back to Windows? Never!