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| .\" genrb.1: manual page for the genrb utility |
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| .\" Copyright (C) 2000-2002 IBM, Inc. and others. |
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| .\" Manual page by Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>. |
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| .TH GENRB 1 "16 April 2002" "ICU MANPAGE" "ICU @VERSION@ Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| .B genrb |
| \- compile a resource bundle |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B genrb |
| [ |
| .BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help" |
| ] |
| [ |
| .BR "\-V\fP, \fB\-\-version" |
| ] |
| [ |
| .BR "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose" |
| ] |
| [ |
| .BI "\-e\fP, \fB\-\-encoding" " encoding" |
| ] |
| [ |
| .BI "\-j\fP, \fB\-\-write\-java" " \fR[ \fPencoding\fR ]\fP" |
| ] |
| [ |
| .BI "\-s\fP, \fB\-\-sourcedir" " source" |
| ] |
| [ |
| .BI "\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination" |
| ] |
| [ |
| .BI "\-i\fP, \fB\-\-icudatadir" " directory" |
| ] |
| .IR bundle " \.\.\." |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B genrb |
| converts the resource |
| .I bundle |
| source files passed on the command line to their binary form or to |
| a Java source file for use with ICU4J. |
| The resulting binary files have a |
| .B .res |
| extension while resource bundle source files typically have a |
| .B .txt |
| extension. Java source files have a |
| .B java |
| extension and follow the ICU4J naming conventions. |
| .PP |
| It is customary to name the resource bundles by their locale name, |
| i.e. to use a local identifier for the |
| .I bundle |
| filename, e.g. |
| .B ja_JP.txt |
| for Japanese (Japan) data, or |
| .B root.txt |
| for the root bundle. |
| In any case, |
| .B genrb |
| will produce a file whose base name is the name of the locale found |
| in the resource file, not the base name of the resource file itself. |
| .PP |
| The binary files can be read directly by ICU, or used by |
| .BR pkgdata (1) |
| for incorporation into a larger archive or library. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help" |
| Print help about usage and exit. |
| .TP |
| .BR "\-V\fP, \fB\-\-version" |
| Print the version of |
| .B genrb |
| and exit. |
| .TP |
| .BR "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose" |
| Display extra informative messages during execution. |
| .TP |
| .BI "\-e\fP, \fB\-\-encoding" " encoding" |
| Set the encoding used to read input files to |
| .IR encoding . |
| The default encoding is the invariant (subset of ASCII or EBCDIC) |
| codepage for the system (see section |
| .BR "INVARIANT CHARACTERS" ). |
| The encodings UTF-8, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE are automatically detected |
| if a byte order mark (BOM) is present. |
| .TP |
| .BI "\-j\fP, \fB\-\-write\-java" " \fR[ \fPencoding\fR ]\fP" |
| Generate a Java source code for use with ICU4J. An optional |
| .I encoding |
| for the Java file can be given. |
| .TP |
| .BI "\-s\fP, \fB\-\-sourcedir" " source" |
| Set the source directory to |
| .IR source . |
| The default source directory is specified by the environment variable |
| .BR ICU_DATA , |
| or the location set when ICU was built if |
| .B ICU_DATA |
| is not set. |
| .TP |
| .BI "\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination" |
| Set the destination directory to |
| .IR destination . |
| The default destination directory is specified by the environment variable |
| .BR ICU_DATA |
| or is the location set when ICU was built if |
| .B ICU_DATA |
| is not set. |
| .TP |
| .BI "\-i\fP, \fB\-\-icudatadir" " directory" |
| Look for any necessary ICU data files in |
| .IR directory . |
| For example, when processing collation overrides, the file |
| .B ucadata.dat |
| must be located. |
| The default ICU data directory is specified by the environment variable |
| .BR ICU_DATA . |
| .SH INVARIANT CHARACTERS |
| The |
| .B invariant character set |
| consists of the following set of characters, expressed as a standard POSIX |
| regular expression: |
| .BR "[a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|_| |+|-|*|/" . |
| This is the set which is guaranteed to be available regardless of code page. |
| .SH ENVIRONMENT |
| .TP 10 |
| .B ICU_DATA |
| Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to |
| .BR @thepkgicudatadir@/@PACKAGE@/@VERSION@/ . |
| Some tools in ICU depend on the presence of the trailing slash. It is thus |
| important to make sure that it is present if |
| .B ICU_DATA |
| is set. |
| .SH VERSION |
| @VERSION@ |
| .SH COPYRIGHT |
| Copyright (C) 2000-2002 IBM, Inc. and others. |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR derb (1) |
| .br |
| .BR pkgdata (1) |