GENDICT(1) ICU 70.1 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 out-
put-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 ${pre-
fix}/share/icu/70.1/. 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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