Return description of characters, e.g. 'DIGIT ONE', 'EXCLAMATION MARK' etc.

Windows .dll files allow for 8-character file names only, which is why the output file name is truncated. If the input file name contains a n

Assign index numbers to the different shift states, by comparing them to the minimum and maximum possible modifier configurations.

Used to find output per state, for every key. If no output, return '-1' (a.k.a. not defined).

Return the base name of the .keylayout file

Check if the input file exists, and if the suffix is .keylayout https://stackoverflow.com/a/15203955

Return character from a Unicode code point.

Read a file, make list of the lines, close the file.

Filter xml-based .keylayout file. Unicode entities (�) make the ElementTree xml parser choke, that’s why some replacement operatio

Return a 4 or 5-digit Unicode hex string for the passed character.

Populate dictionary self.deadkeys which contains the state ID and the code point of an actual dead key. (for instance, '3': '

Find the real output values of all the keys, e.g. replacing the action IDs in the XML keyboard layout with the code points they

Summary of dead keys, and their results in all intended combinations.

List of dead keys contained in the klc keyboard layout.

Populate self.deadkey_dict, which maps a deadkey e.g. (02dc, circumflex) to (base character, accented character) tuples e.g.

This script is configured to work for the first keymap set of an XML keyboard layout only. Here, the filtering occurs:

Extend self.action_list is extended by the base character, e.g. [ '6', # action id 's1', # state