Adding keyboard scripts in 10.2

Aug 24, '02 09:44:09PM

Contributed by: Gene

In the past with Mac OS 10.1, it was really hectic adding extra keyboard scripts to the OS. It required changing the contents of a very deeply buried Localized.rsrc file and converting back and forth between Data fork and Resource fork and then the thing worked.

In Jaguar it is a lot easier. You simply need to take your Mac OS 9 keyboard script and add a .rsrc extension to it and then drop it in the /Library -> Keyboard Layouts or ~/Library -> Keyboard Layouts folder. Log out, log back in and it all works.

So, if you need to add another keyboard script to the system that Apple doesn't provide (Russian phonetic/transliterated in my case), you can do it without any problems.

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