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NAME

       genrb - compile a resource bundle

SYNOPSIS

       genrb  [  -h,  -?,  --help  ]  [  -V,  --version  ]  [  -v, --verbose ] [ -e, --encoding encoding ] [ -j, --write-java [ encoding ] ] [ -s,
       --sourcedir source ] [ -d, --destdir destination ] [ -i, --icudatadir directory ] bundle ...

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       -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.

INVARIANT CHARACTERS

       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.

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.

VERSION

       50.1.2

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2000-2002 IBM, Inc. and others.

SEE ALSO

       derb(1)
       pkgdata(1)

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							   16 April 2002							  GENRB(1)