Apple wireless keyboard is outputting an " character when I expect an @ character

For some reason your mini thinks the keyboard is a JIS (Japanese) keyboard "type". This note might help:

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2009/12/fixing-keyboard-type-problems.html

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Tom Gewecke
March 06, 2013 02:21 AM

Just experienced the same problem with shift+2 returning " on wireless apple keyboard connected to PC. Out of curiosity I typed shift+" and this returned @. Not a brilliant solution I know but at least it's workable.

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Dane
November 09, 2016 14:02 PM

I have an refurbed macbook air with the exact problem as OP, built-in keyboard, fully upgraded to sierra, which is set to a US keyboard layout and nevertheless produces " for @. Maybe it started life as JIS keyboard and someone switched the keys during refurb, I don't know.

After much searching and trying all the recommended solutions up to an including the SMC and PRAM reset hackery, nothing worked. Trying the Karabiner approach some have suggested had no effect at all, BUT merely running karabiner-elements (with no configuration changes) fixes everything for me, apparently causing sierra to actually respect the US keyboard layout.

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mvr
April 20, 2017 10:01 AM