gencnval (1)
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Hey, Emacs! This is -*-nroff-*- you know... gencnval.1: manual page for the gencnval utility Copyright (C) 2000-2004 IBM, Inc. and others. Manual page by Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>. Manual page by George Rhoten
NAME
gencnval - compile the converters aliases fileSYNOPSIS
gencnval [ -h, -?, --help ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -c, --copyright ] [ -s, --sourcedir source ] [ -d, --destdir destination ] [ converterfile ]DESCRIPTION
gencnval converts the ICU aliases file converterfile into the binary file cnvalias.icu. This binary file can then be read directly by ICU, or used by pkgdata(1) for incorporation into a larger archive or library.If converterfile is not provided, the default ICU convrtrs.txt file is used.
OPTIONS
- -h, -?, --help
- Print help about usage and exit.
- -v, --verbose
- Display verbose output. This information can include information about conflicting aliases and the converters the aliases resolve to.
- -c, --copyright
- Include a copyright notice in the binary data.
- -s, --sourcedir source
- Set the source directory to source. The default source directory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA.
- -d, --destdir destination
- Set the destination directory to destination. The default destination directory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA.
ENVIRONMENT
- ICU_DATA
- Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to ${prefix}/share/icu/55.1/. 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.
FILES
- icu/source/data/mappings/convrtrs.txt
- Description of ICU's converters and their aliases. This data file is not normally installed, and it is available as a part of ICU source code.