GENBRK(1)							 ICU 50.1.2 Manual							 GENBRK(1)

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 direc-
       tory ] -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  elimi-
       nate 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/50.1.2/.  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

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							  2 December 2005							 GENBRK(1)