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GENDICT(1) ICU 76.0.1 Manual GENDICT(1)
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 extension.
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 specifies 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
${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.
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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