derb - disassemble a resource bundle
derb [ -h, -?, --help ]
[ -V, --version ] [ -v,
--verbose ] [ -e,
--encoding encoding ] [
--bom ] [ -t, --truncate [ size
] ] [ -s, --sourcedir
source ] [ -d, --destdir
destination ] [ -i,
--icudatadir directory ] [
-c, --to-stdout ] bundle ...
derb reads the compiled resource bundle files passed
on the command line and write them back in text form. The resulting text
files have a .txt extension while compiled resource bundle source
files typically have a .res extension.
It is customary to name the resource bundles by their locale name,
i.e. to use a local identifier for the bundle filename, e.g.
ja_JP.res for Japanese (Japan) data, or root.res for the root
bundle. This is especially important for derb since the locale name
is not accessible directly from the compiled resource bundle, and to know
which locale to ask for when opening the bundle. derb will produce a
file whose base name is the base name of the compiled resource file itself.
If the --to-stdout, -c option is used,
however, the text will be written on the standard output.
- -h, -?,
--help
- Print help about usage and exit.
- -V,
--version
- Print the version of derb and exit.
- -v,
--verbose
- Display extra informative messages during execution.
- -A,
--suppressAliases
- Don't follow aliases when producing output.
- -e,
--encoding encoding
- Set the encoding used to write output files to encoding. The
default encoding is the invariant (subset of ASCII or EBCDIC) codepage for
the system (see section INVARIANT CHARACTERS). The choice of the
encoding does not affect the data, just their representation. Characters
that cannot be represented in the encoding will be represented
using \uhhhh escape sequences.
- --bom
- Write a byte order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file.
- -l,
--locale locale
- Set the locale for the resource bundle, which is used both in the
generated text and as the base name of the output file.
- -t,
--truncate [ size ]
- Truncate individual resources (strings or binary data) to size
bytes. The default if size is not specified is 80
bytes.
- -s,
--sourcedir source
- Set the source directory to source. The default source directory is
the current directory. If - is passed for source, then the
bundle will be looked for in its default location, specified by the
ICU_DATA environment variable (or defaulting to the location set
when ICU was built if ICU_DATA is not set).
- -d,
--destdir destination
- Set the destination directory to destination. The default
destination directory is specified by the environment variable
ICU_DATA or is the location set when ICU was built if
ICU_DATA is not set.
- -i,
--icudatadir directory
- Look for any necessary ICU data files in directory. For example,
when processing collation overrides, the file ucadata.dat must be
located. The default ICU data directory is specified by the environment
variable ICU_DATA.
- -c,
--to-stdout
- Write the disassembled bundle on standard output instead of into a
file.
When the option --bom is used, the character U+FEFF
is written in the destination encoding regardless of whether it is a
Unicode transformation format (UTF) or not. This option should only be used
with an UTF encoding, as byte order marks are not meaningful for other
encodings.
The invariant character set consists of the following set
of characters, expressed as a standard POSIX regular expression:
[a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|_| |+|-|*|/. This is the set which is guaranteed to
be available regardless of code page.
- ICU_DATA
- Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to
${prefix}/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.
Vladimir Weinstein
Yves Arrouye
Copyright (C) 2002 IBM, Inc. and others.