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Alexander Solberg
14,350 PointsCan't enter "{}" in MongoDB Shell
So after spending a long time trying to figure out how to install and use MongoDB, I of-course, ran into another problem.
When I'm in the mongo shell, I can't enter any curly braces or square brackets. In fact, I can't enter any characters that require CTRL + ALT(or AltGr) to be pressed simultaneously. There is very little information to be found on Google, just a confusing post from Stack-overflow which I couldn't make much sense of.
Also, If I copy n paste curly braces into the mongo shell, I just get an error sound, nothing is displayed.
Link to Stack-overflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8695400/not-able-to-use-and-characters-in-mongodb-console
Seems like it has something to do with my keyboard type. I am from Norway and we have a different kind of keyboard layout here. We use QWERTY but with some extra characters.
Link to keyboard overview: https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastaturoppsett#/media/File:KB_Norway.svg
Anyone know of a workaround to this problem? Anything I could try to do before contacting MongoDB-support?
I'm on Windows 8.1, using Atom as my IDE.
I have used MongoDB before on Cloud 9, using the same keyboard, with no problems at all. Which is why this problem is so strange and incredibly frustrating.