genrb - compile a resource bundle
genrb [ -h, -?, --help ]
[ -V, --version ] [ -v,
--verbose ] [ -e,
--encoding encoding ] [ -j,
--write-java [ encoding ]
] [ -s, --sourcedir source
] [ -d, --destdir
destination ] [ -i,
--icudatadir directory ] bundle
...
genrb converts the resource 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 .res extension
while resource bundle source files typically have a .txt extension.
Java source files have a java extension and follow the ICU4J naming
conventions.
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.txt for Japanese (Japan) data, or root.txt for the root
bundle. In any case, 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.
The binary files can be read directly by ICU, or used by
pkgdata(1) for incorporation into a larger archive or library.
- -h, -?,
--help
- Print help about usage and exit.
- -V,
--version
- Print the version of genrb and exit.
- -v,
--verbose
- Display extra informative messages during execution.
- -e,
--encoding encoding
- Set the encoding used to read input files to encoding. The default
encoding is the invariant (subset of ASCII or EBCDIC) codepage for the
system (see section INVARIANT CHARACTERS). The encodings UTF-8,
UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE are automatically detected if a byte order mark
(BOM) is present.
- -j,
--write-java [ encoding
]
- Generate a Java source code for use with ICU4J. An optional
encoding for the Java file can be given.
- -s,
--sourcedir source
- Set the source directory to source. The default source directory is
specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA, or 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.
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.
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