PC keyboard on a Mac, how to remap keyboard?

Greetings, sorry my poor english.
I'm using a Genius KB-19e USB keyboard with my new Mac Mini and Mac OS X 10.4.7
Some of the keys are 'wrong' and I would like to know a way of to 'remap' the keys. The 'wrong' are mostly the special 'accent' keys like ´ `º * + » etc.
Thank you.

The ability is there, no doubt about that. The question is how you get there.
I routinely cycle through several keyboard layouts, including two custom layouts I have been using for 20 years.
I created them eons ago in MackKeymeleon. It is amazing that they work flawlessly in all versions of OS X by the simple addition of an ".rsrc" extension.
If you don't find what you need among the predefined keyboard layouts offered in International, you could make your own. I understand it's very easy to do nowadays, though I can't tell you how because I haven't had a need to do it recently.
Maybe a forum or Google search would turn up what you need.
Dual 1.25MHz G4, 2GB RAM, 4 int dr.,2ext FW drives Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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