GENBRK
Section: ICU 63.1 Manual (1)
Updated: 2 December 2005
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NAME
genbrk
- Compiles ICU break iteration rules source files into binary data files
SYNOPSIS
genbrk
[
-h,
-?,
--help
]
[
-V,
--version
]
[
-c,
--copyright
]
[
-v,
--verbose
]
[
-d,
--destdir destination
]
[
-i,
--icudatadir directory
]
-r,
--rules rule-file
-o,
--out output-file
DESCRIPTION
genbrk
reads the break (boundary) rule source code from
rule-file
and creates a break iteration data file. Normally this data file has the
.brk
extension.
The details of the rule syntax can be found in ICU's User Guide.
OPTIONS
- -h, -?, --help
-
Print help about usage and exit.
- -V, --version
-
Print the version of
genbrk
and exit.
- -c, --copyright
-
Embeds the standard ICU copyright into the
output-file.
- -v, --verbose
-
Display extra informative messages during execution.
- -d, --destdir destination
-
Set the destination directory of the
output-file
to
destination.
- -i, --icudatadir directory
-
Look for any necessary ICU data files in
directory.
For example, the file
pnames.icu
must be located when ICU's data is not built as a shared library.
The default ICU data directory is specified by the environment variable
ICU_DATA.
Most configurations of ICU do not require this argument.
- -r, --rules rule-file
-
The source file to read.
- -o, --out output-file
-
The output data file to write.
CAVEATS
When the
rule-file
contains a byte order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file, which is the Unicode character
U+FEFF,
then the
rule-file
is interpreted as Unicode. Without the BOM,
the file is interpreted in the current operating system default codepage.
In order to eliminate any ambiguity of the encoding for how the
rule-file
was written, it is recommended that you write this file in UTF-8
with the BOM.
ENVIRONMENT
- ICU_DATA
-
Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to
/usr/share/icu/63.1/.
Some tools in ICU depend on the presence of the trailing slash. It is thus
important to make sure that it is present if
ICU_DATA
is set.
AUTHORS
George Rhoten
Andy Heninger
VERSION
1.0
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 International Business Machines Corporation and others
SEE ALSO
http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/boundaryAnalysis.html