create keymap from read syntax

[Jonas . Bernoulli]

hi,

i would like to store keymaps in a file and load them from there again.

(defun altmap-save-keymaps ()
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (let* ((file altmap-file)
              (buf (get-buffer-create "*altmap-output*"))
       (standard-output buf))

      (princ "(altmap-set-keymaps")
      (dolist (map altmap-keymaps)
       (unless (looking-back "\n")
        (princ "\n"))
      (princ "  '(")
      (princ (symbol-name map))
      (princ " ")
      (princ (eval map))
      (princ ")"))
     (princ ")")

      (with-current-buffer buf
    (write-file file)))))

(defun altmap-set-keymaps (&rest args)
  (while args
    (let ((entry (car args)))
      (if (listp entry)
      (let ((symbol (indirect-variable (nth 0 entry)))
        (value (nth 1 entry)))
        (set symbol value))))
    (setq args (cdr args))))

this works for sparse keymaps but for full keymaps it get this error when
evaluating altmap-set-keymaps as stored in altmap-file: Invalid size
char-table. i also manually modified the content of altmap-file to use a simple
setq, but it turned out the problem really is with the read syntax of the
keymap.

are the read syntax and printed representation of char-tables not identical?
does someone know how to work around this, or can even provide an example how
this can be done?

thx in advance

jonas

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