genctd(1)

NAME

       genctd - Compiles word list into ICU compact trie dictionary

SYNOPSIS

       genctd  [  -h, -?, --help ] [ -V, --version ] [ -c, --copyright ] [ -v,
       --verbose ] [ -d, --destdir destination ] [ -i, --icudatadir  directory
       ] -o, --out output-file  dictionary-file

DESCRIPTION

       genctd  reads  the word list from dictionary-file and creates a compact
       trie dictionary file. Normally this data file has the .ctd 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 genctd and exit.

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

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

       -d, --destdir destination
              Set the destination directory of the output-file to destination.

       -i, --icudatadir directory
              Look for any necessary ICU data files in directory.   For  exam-
              ple,  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 configura-
              tions of ICU do not require this argument.

        dictionary-file
              The source file to read.

       -o, --out output-file
              The output data file to write.

CAVEATS

       When the dictionary-file contains a byte order mark (BOM) at the begin-
       ning  of the file, which is the Unicode character U+FEFF, then the dic-
       tionary-file is interpreted as Unicode. Without the BOM,  the  file  is
       interpreted in the current operating system default codepage.  In order
       to eliminate any ambiguity of the encoding for how  the  rule-file  was
       written,  it  is recommended that you write this file in UTF-8 with the
       BOM.

ENVIRONMENT

       ICU_DATA  Specifies the directory  containing  ICU  data.  Defaults  to
                 /usr/lib/icu/3.6/.   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

       Deborah Goldsmith

VERSION

       1.0

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006 IBM, Inc. and others.

SEE ALSO

       http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/boundaryAnalysis.html

ICU MANPAGE                      8 March 2006                        GENCTD(1)