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109 lines
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.\" Hey, Emacs! This is -*-nroff-*- you know...
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.\" makeconv.8: manual page for the makeconv utility
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.\" Copyright (C) 2000-2002 IBM, Inc. and others.
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.\" Manual page by Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>.
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.\"
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.TH MAKECONV 8 "14 February 2002" "ICU MANPAGE" "ICU @VERSION@ Manual"
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.SH NAME
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.B makeconv
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\- compile a converter table
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B makeconv
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[
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.BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
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]
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[
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.BR "\-c\fP, \fB\-\-copyright"
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]
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[
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.BR "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination"
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]
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.IR convertertable " .\|.\|."
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B makeconv
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converts the ICU converter table
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.I convertertable
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into a binary file. The binary file has the same base name as
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.I convertertable
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but has a
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.B .cnv
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extension (instead of the typical
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.B .ucm
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extension of the
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.I convertertable
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file).
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This binary file can then be read directly by ICU, or used by
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.BR pkgdata (8)
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for incorporation into a larger archive or library.
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.PP
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The
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.I convertertable
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must be in the IBM NLTC ucmap format in order to be understood by
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.BR makeconv .
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Comments in the
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.I convertable
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are handled as follows. If a comment (starting with a `#' sign)
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does contain the fallback indicator `|' then only the text starting
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with the `#' sign, and ending before the `|' sign, is ignored.
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Otherwise, the comment runs up to the end of the line. This special
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handling of comments is to accomodate the practice of putting fallback
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information in comments in the strict IBM NLTC ucmap format.
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.PP
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Note that new converters will be automatically found by ICU after their
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installation in ICU's data directory. They do not need to
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be listed in the
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.BR convrtrs.txt (5)
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converters aliases file in order to be available to applications using ICU.
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They do need to be listed there if one wants to give them aliases, or
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tags, though.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
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Print help about usage and exit.
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.TP
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.BR "\-c\fP, \fB\-\-copyright"
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Include a copyright notice in the binary data.
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.TP
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.BR "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
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Display extra informative messages during execution.
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.TP
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.BI "\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination"
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Set the destination directory to
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.IR destination .
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The default destination directory is specified by the environment variable
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.BR ICU_DATA .
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.SH CAVEATS
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If an existing converter table is changed and recompiled using
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.BR makeconv ,
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the resulting binary file must be packaged in the same way that it was
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packaged initially. For example, if converters were grouped together in
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an archive or a library with
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.BR pkgdata (8),
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then the archive or library must be rebuilt with the new binary file.
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A standalone binary converter file will not take precedence over a
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packaged one.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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.TP 10
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.B ICU_DATA
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Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to
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.BR @thepkgicudatadir@/@PACKAGE@/@VERSION@/ .
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Some tools in ICU depend on the presence of the trailing slash. It is thus
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important to make sure that it is present if
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.B ICU_DATA
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is set.
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.SH VERSION
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@VERSION@
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (C) 2000 IBM, Inc. and others.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR convrtrs.txt (5)
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.br
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.BR pkgdata (8)
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