# GENDICT - Compiles word list into ICU string trie dictionary - man - [phpMan]

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## 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 _

## 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 _
              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/74.2/**.
                 Some  tools  in ICU depend on the presence of the trailing slash. It is thus impor‐
                 tant 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/GENDICT/1/markdown)