GENRB(1) ICU 70.1 Manual GENRB(1)
NAME
genrb - compile a resource bundle
SYNOPSIS
genrb [ -h, -?, --help ] [ -V, --version ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -e,
--encoding encoding ] [ -j, --write-java [ encoding ] ] [ -s,
--sourcedir source ] [ -d, --destdir destination ] [ -i, --icudatadir
directory ] bundle ...
DESCRIPTION
genrb converts the resource bundle source files passed on the command
line to their binary form or to a Java source file for use with ICU4J.
The resulting binary files have a .res extension while resource bundle
source files typically have a .txt extension. Java source files have a
java extension and follow the ICU4J naming conventions.
It is customary to name the resource bundles by their locale name, i.e.
to use a local identifier for the bundle filename, e.g. ja_JP.txt for
Japanese (Japan) data, or root.txt for the root bundle. In any case,
genrb will produce a file whose base name is the name of the locale
found in the resource file, not the base name of the resource file it-
self.
The binary files can be read directly by ICU, or used by pkgdata(1) for
incorporation into a larger archive or library.
OPTIONS
-h, -?, --help
Print help about usage and exit.
-V, --version
Print the version of genrb and exit.
-v, --verbose
Display extra informative messages during execution.
-e, --encoding encoding
Set the encoding used to read input files to encoding. The de-
fault encoding is the invariant (subset of ASCII or EBCDIC)
codepage for the system (see section INVARIANT CHARACTERS). The
encodings UTF-8, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE are automatically de-
tected if a byte order mark (BOM) is present.
-j, --write-java [ encoding ]
Generate a Java source code for use with ICU4J. An optional en-
coding for the Java file can be given.
-s, --sourcedir source
Set the source directory to source. The default source direc-
tory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA, or the
location set when ICU was built if ICU_DATA is not set.
-d, --destdir destination
Set the destination directory to destination. The default des-
tination directory is specified by the environment variable
ICU_DATA or is the location set when ICU was built if ICU_DATA
is not set.
-i, --icudatadir directory
Look for any necessary ICU data files in directory. For exam-
ple, when processing collation overrides, the file ucadata.dat
must be located. The default ICU data directory is specified by
the environment variable ICU_DATA.
INVARIANT CHARACTERS
The invariant character set consists of the following set of charac-
ters, expressed as a standard POSIX regular expression: [a-z]|[A-
Z]|[0-9]|_| |+|-|*|/. This is the set which is guaranteed to be avail-
able regardless of code page.
ENVIRONMENT
ICU_DATA Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to
${prefix}/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.
VERSION
70.1
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 IBM, Inc. and others.
SEE ALSO
derb(1)
pkgdata(1)
ICU MANPAGE 16 April 2002 GENRB(1)
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