GENDICT(1) ICU 72.1 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/72.1/. 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


ICU MANPAGE 1 June 2012 GENDICT(1)