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GENRB(1)                    ICU 76.0.1 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 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
              ${prefix}/share/icu/76.0.1/.  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

       76.0.1

COPYRIGHT

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

SEE ALSO

       derb(1)
       pkgdata(1)

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ICU MANPAGE                   16 April 2002                     GENRB(1)

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