Setup Assistant: Selecting Canada Chooses French Canadian Format

When Canada is selected as the country of residence in Mac OS Setup Assistant, the keyboard layout, date, time, and numbers are set to French Canadian standards. This article describes how to set these items to the English standards.
Symptom

The keyboard layout, date, time, and numbers are set to the French Canadian format when Canada is selected in Mac OS Setup Assistant.

Affected Products


Solution

Manually change the appropriate Control Panel settings to the English format. You need to adjust the Numbers, Date and Time, and Keyboard Control Panels. The instructions below explain how to set each individual control panel.

Setting the Numbers Control Panel


Setting the Date and Time Control Panel
Setting the Keyboard Control Panel
Country Flag in the Menu Bar

If a country flag appears in the right corner of your menu bar, you have more than one keyboard layout selected in the Keyboard control panel. To remove the country flag, open the Keyboard control panel and make sure only one keyboard layout is selected. After selecting only one keyboard layout and closing the Keyboard control panel, the country flag disappears.

Published Date: Feb 20, 2012