Apples Magic Keyboard prints gibberish, How to setup/configure Apple Magic Keyboard?

Hello! I'm trying to connect Apple Magic Keyboard to my old Mac, but output is gibberish.
Here's the example:

With regular wired keyboard:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

With Apple's magic keyboard:
The q45c2 br5wn f6x 140*s 6ver the 3azy d6g

Maybe I chose wrong settings for input sources?

Keyboard looks like this:

Help would be greatly appreciated!

Looks like Numeric Pad keys are beng displayed instead of alphanumeric. Is there a function key to toggle off the numeric pad on that keyboard?

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Wait, I think I fixed it!
I turned off Numeric pad on my wired keyboard and now it works like normal, thank you for suggestion! It helped! :smiley:

It is not the first time we have seen that here on the forum and probably not the last, usually with compact keyboards. Glad it was the simple "solution", which I have now marked. Zab

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Just going to add this in case anyone else with magic keyboard runs into the same problem.

Make sure in settings your languages have Macintosh near them,
example: English (Macintosh)

And if you don't have wired keyboard that you can use to disable NumPad try pressing F6 as it turns it on/off

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