GENDICT(1)			ICU 76.1 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  output-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
		 ${prefix}/share/icu/76.1/.  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


ICU MANPAGE			  1 June 2012			    GENDICT(1)