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NAME

       gendict - Compiles word list into ICU string trie dictionary

SYNOPSIS

       gendict	[  --uchars  |	--bytes  --transform  transform ] [ -h, -?, --help ] [ -V, --version ] [ -c, --copyright ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -i,
       --icudatadir directory ]  input-file  output-file

DESCRIPTION

       gendict reads the word list from dictionary-file and creates a string trie dictionary file. Normally this data file has	the  .dict  exten-
       sion.

       Words begin at the beginning of a line and are terminated by the first whitespace.  Lines that begin with whitespace are ignored.

OPTIONS

       -h, -?, --help
	      Print help about usage and exit.

       -V, --version
	      Print the version of gendict and exit.

       -c, --copyright
	      Embeds the standard ICU copyright into the output-file.

       -v, --verbose
	      Display extra informative messages during execution.

       -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.

       --uchars
	      Set the output trie type to UChar. Mutually exclusive with --bytes.

       --bytes
	      Set the output trie type to Bytes. Mutually exclusive with --uchars.

       --transform
	      Set the transform type. Should only be specified with --bytes.  Currently supported transforms are: offset-<hex-number>, which spec-
	      ifies an offset to subtract from all input characters.  It should be noted that the offset transform also maps U+200D  to  0xFF  and
	      U+200C  to  0xFE,  in  order to offer compatibility to languages that require these characters.  A transform must be specified for a
	      bytes trie, and when applied to the non-value characters in the input-file must produce output between 0x00 and 0xFF.

	input-file
	      The source file to read.

	output-file
	      The file to write the output dictionary to.

CAVEATS

       The input-file is assumed to be encoded in UTF-8.  The integers in the input-file that are used as values must be made up of ASCII  digits.
       They may be specified either in hex, by using a 0x prefix, or in decimal.  Either --bytes or --uchars must be specified.

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

       Maxime Serrano

VERSION

       1.0

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2012 International Business Machines Corporation and others

SEE ALSO

       http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/boundaryAnalysis.html

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							    1 June 2012 							GENDICT(1)