m18 R2, keyboard layout

Myself and my business colleague have both purchased an M18 R2 laptop.  Both have come with some of the key labels transposed, particularly on the numbers row 1 - 9 are above their corresponding shifted symbol, i.e. 1 is above exclamation mark etc., rather than below as is generally the case.  All the other symbols are also transposed, e.g. curly brackets are below square brackets.  It feels weird to use them as they are currently printed.  Anyone know why they have done this?