Import the tools used to convert the keymap files from SYSCONS (in locale

dependent encoding) to NEWCONS (Unicode).

The file "LANG.map" is used to convert INDEX.keymaps. It has 3 columns:
- the language ID as used in the source file
- the language ID to be used in the generated file (e.g. "iw" -> "he")
- the encoding of the menu texts for this language
The conversion result is written to STDOUT.

The file "KBDFILES.map" is used to batch convert keymap files. It's
columns are:
- the encoding used for the keymap sounce file
- the name of the source file
- the name of the generated file
The output files are created in the TEMP sub-directory of the vt keymap
directory, in order to preserve (possibly uncommitted) keymap files in
/usr/src/share/vt/keymaps.

The convert-keymap.pl script can be directly executed by passing the
source file name and the encoding on the command line. It writes to
STDOUT and generates hex Unicode codepoints by default. (This can be
changed to decimal in the script.)

While written for the one-time conversion of the SYSCONS keymaps into
the format required for NEWCONS, I think these tools may be useful for
easy conversion of possible further SYSCONS keymap files, that have not
been committed to the source tree.

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