Had to reinstall Qubes again because of a hardware problem windows 7 caused. This problem happened again so I googled it.
Joanna, the fix is here, in default R2B2 install the kayboard resets to en_US and this [1] solution works
[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-devel/d8ZQ_62asKI/NZxjt92Thp0J