Swedish Keyboard: å, ä, ö and é on the Layout Finland Shares

Which keys type å, ä and ö, and what does Caps Lock do to them?

Three keys right of the English letters, one press each. In Microsoft's drawing of the Swedish keyboard layout (opens in a new tab) (0000041D), å takes the key right of P. Then ö and ä take the two keys right of L, where English keyboards have the semicolon and the apostrophe. Shift gives Å, Ä and Ö, and so does Caps Lock: Microsoft's data lists the capitals for all three keys with Caps Lock on, as it does for a to z.

Swedish counts them as letters of their own, not a or o with a mark: CLDR's index of Swedish lists Å, Ä and Ö after Z. The Swedish alphabet page tells how that order came about. Windows uses this layout for Swedish in Sweden and, by Microsoft's default input profiles, for Swedish in Finland too.

How do the two Swedish dead keys put an accent on é and à?

A dead key types nothing on its own and puts its mark on the next letter. The Swedish layout has two of them, and their states hold every mark below:

1. Press the key right of +, the ´ key, then e. That gives é, as in idé. Space after it gives the ´ by itself.
2. Hold Shift on that key for the grave, `, then press a for à.
3. The key right of å holds the two dots, ¨: then u gives ü. With Shift it holds ^, and with AltGr ~, which makes ñ before n.

Microsoft's table for each dead key, read from its data on 2026-10-25:

The Mac's Swedish input source puts both dead keys in the same two places. We read it with UCKeyTranslate on macOS 26.6.2: ´ then e gives é, and Shift on that key gives the grave. It also adds a shortcut Windows lacks, Option with E for é in one press.

Where are @, $ and the brackets on a Swedish layout?

On AltGr on Windows, on Option on a Mac, and not always on the same key.

Character	Windows: Swedish	Mac: Swedish
@	AltGr on 2	Option on 2
$	AltGr on 4	Option on 4
¤	Shift on 4	none
€	AltGr on 5 or on E	Shift on 4
[ ]	AltGr on 8, 9	Option on 8, 9
	AltGr on 7, 0	Shift, Option on 8, 9
~	AltGr on the ¨ key, then Space	Option on the ¨ key, then Space

The Mac also ships Swedish – Legacy. Read the same way, it differs from Swedish on one chord: @ moves from Option with 2 to Option with the ' key beside Enter.

Is a Finnish keyboard the same as a Swedish one?

On Windows, key for key. Microsoft draws the Finnish layout (opens in a new tab), KLID 0000040B, from a data file that differs from the Swedish one only in its name. Every key and every dead key match. Finland's Finnish speakers get the Finnish layout by default and its Swedish speakers the Swedish one, and they type the same.

The Mac's Finnish and Swedish input sources differ in a single chord out of all we read: Shift and Option with X gives ≠ on Finnish and ˇ on Swedish. To add the layout, follow the vendor steps listed in the sources:

• Windows: Settings, Time & language, Language & region, then Language options and Add a keyboard.
• Mac: System Settings, Keyboard, Text Input, Edit, then the Add button.

The Swedish keyboard shortcuts in the cards below type each letter without switching. The German keyboard shares ä and ö with Swedish but puts them on QWERTZ.