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.\"	$OpenBSD: kbd.8,v 1.7 1998/12/15 01:20:32 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Juergen Hannken-Illjes
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
.\" are met:
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.\"	This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
.\"	by Juergen Hannken-Illjes.
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.\"
.Dd Feb 1, 1996
.Dt KBD 8
.Os OpenBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm kbd
.Nd "set national keyboard translation"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm kbd
.Fl l
.Nm kbd
.Op Fl q
.Ar name
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is used to change the keyboard encoding.
The execution of
.Nm
normally occurs in the system multi-user initialization file
.Pa /etc/rc
to set a national keyboard layout.
.Pp
If called as
.Nm
.Fl l ,
all available keyboard encodings are listed.
.Pp
If called as
.Nm
.Ar name ,
the keyboard encoding will be set to
.Ar name
and a short message will be printed to stdout.
If the
.Fl q
flag is present,
.Nm
will be quiet unless an error occurs.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr keycap 5