NAME

       genbrk - Compiles ICU break iteration rules source files into binary data files

SYNOPSIS

       genbrk  [  -h,  -?,  --help  ]  [  -V,  --version ] [ -c, --copyright ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -d, --destdir
       destination ] [ -i, --icudatadir directory ] -r, --rules rule-file -o, --out output-file

DESCRIPTION

       genbrk reads the break (boundary) rule source code from rule-file and  creates  a  break  iteration  data
       file. Normally this data file has the .brk extension.

       The details of the rule syntax can be found in ICU's User Guide.

OPTIONS

       -h, -?, --help
              Print help about usage and exit.

       -V, --version
              Print the version of genbrk and exit.

       -c, --copyright
              Embeds the standard ICU copyright into the output-file.

       -v, --verbose
              Display extra informative messages during execution.

       -d, --destdir destination
              Set the destination directory of the output-file to destination.

       -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.

       -r, --rules rule-file
              The source file to read.

       -o, --out output-file
              The output data file to write.

CAVEATS

       When the rule-file contains a byte order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file, which  is  the  Unicode
       character  U+FEFF, then the rule-file is interpreted as Unicode. Without the BOM, the file is interpreted
       in the current operating system default codepage.  In order to eliminate any ambiguity  of  the  encoding
       for how the rule-file was written, it is recommended that you write this file in UTF-8 with the BOM.

ENVIRONMENT

       ICU_DATA  Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to ${prefix}/share/icu/66.1/.  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

       George Rhoten
       Andy Heninger

VERSION

       1.0

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005 International Business Machines Corporation and others

SEE ALSO

       http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/boundaryAnalysis.html