GENRB(1)



GENRB(1)                        ICU 67.1 Manual                       GENRB(1)

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  it-
       self.

       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  de-
              fault  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 de-
              tected if a byte order mark (BOM) is present.

       -j, --write-java [ encoding ]
              Generate a Java source code for use with ICU4J. An optional  en-
              coding for the Java file can be given.

       -s, --sourcedir source
              Set  the  source directory to source.  The default source direc-
              tory 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 des-
              tination 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  exam-
              ple,  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 charac-
       ters, expressed as  a  standard  POSIX  regular  expression:  [a-z]|[A-
       Z]|[0-9]|_| |+|-|*|/.  This is the set which is guaranteed to be avail-
       able regardless of code page.

ENVIRONMENT
       ICU_DATA  Specifies the directory  containing  ICU  data.  Defaults  to
                 ${prefix}/share/icu/67.1/.   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.

VERSION
       67.1

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

SEE ALSO
       derb(1)
       pkgdata(1)

ICU MANPAGE                      16 April 2002                        GENRB(1)

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