Wired keyboard character on swiss french do not work

My Swiss (French) wired key board does not show specific characters. Already plugged in different USB port and restarted iMac. Any suggestions?

Ray0202 wrote:
My Swiss (French) wired key board does not show specific characters.
Exactly what ones? Do you have only the Swiss French layout active in system preferences/language & text/input sources?

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