Change section key to less-than in OS X

Question

I'm having trouble getting my keyboard layout to be properly recognized. At the moment everything else is fine, but my less-than key (<) is mapped to the section key (§), which makes writing HTML a pain. I've tried Ukelele and KeyRemap4MacBook, but can't seem to find the correct settings to change.

For reference, this is my layout: Finnish Multilingual, and in System Preferences the input is set to Finnish.

Answer 1

Did you try saving something like this as private.xml?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>test</name>
<identifier>test</identifier>
<autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::SWEDISH_SECTION, KeyCode::SWEDISH_LESS_THAN</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey-- KeyCode::SWEDISH_LESS_THAN, KeyCode::SWEDISH_SECTION</autogen>
</item>
</root>

The key code constants are defined in the source. The test folder has an XML file with all the predefined remappings.

Answer 2

After upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion I had the same issue using a Logitech keyboard and the Spanish ISO layout.

Take a look at your /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist file using a Property List Editor. It may look something like this:

Root
  keyboardtype
    49949-1133-0      43 

Replacing 43 with a 41 solved the problem for me:

Root
  keyboardtype
    49949-1133-0      41