Custom keyboard layout from standard layout

Hi,
I'm trying to copy the Spanish-ISO keyboard layout in order to create a custom keyboard layout, and change somme attributes like icons, etc.
I've seen that standard keyboard layouts are in:
/System/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-B.d at
and
/System/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-B.d at
The difference between them is byte ordering, little or big endian, depending on platform, PowerPC or Intel ( this is my opinion... )
But how can I edit this file to extract an Spanish.keylayout ?? And be able to create a custom keyboard layout ??
Regards,
Joan

But how can I edit this file to extract an Spanish.keylayout ?? And be able to create a custom keyboard layout ??
Don't mess with those files. Just get Ukelele, it comes with copies of what you need:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?siteid=nrsi&itemid=ukelele
What exactly are you trying to do? Some other info is
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/02/more-ways-to-type-spanish.html
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/04/typing-catalan.html

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