mkkbd

Compile text into keyboard table

Syntax:

mkkbd [-c] [-d dir] [-I dir] [-i file] [-k]
      [-O] [-o] [-q] [-S] [-s] [-t] [-u]
      [pattern...]

Options:

-c

Don't warn about repeated compose sequences.

-d dir

Place output file(s) in the specified directory.

-I dir

Look for include files in the specified directory instead of in the current directory.

-i file

Read from the specified file instead of standard input.

-k

Place output file(s) in /etc/config/kbd.

-O

The equivalent of options -otu.

-o

Remove impossible compose sequences.

-q

No warnings.

-S

Print statistics.

-s

Check syntax only.

-t

Remove unused key types.

-u

Remove unused symbols.

pattern

Make keyboard tables for the keyboard names that match the specified pattern.

Description:

The mkkbd utility compiles a text file containing keyboard definitions and is capable of creating a binary keyboard table file from each definition. If neither the -k nor -d option is given, the first keyboard description matching the given pattern(s) is output to standard output. If -k or -d is specified, unnamed keyboard descriptions are ignored.

For more information about compiling text into a keyboard table, see the section "PhAB multilingual applications" in the Unicode Multilingual Support chapter.

Examples:

Create a German keyboard table from the keyboard definition file called german.kdef, and include only the definitions that will be used:

mkkbd -k -O -i german.kdef