NAME

       derb - disassemble a resource bundle

SYNOPSIS

       derb  [  -h, -?, --help ] [ -V, --version ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -e, --encoding encoding ] [ --bom ] [ -l,
       --locale locale ] [ -t, --truncate [ size ] ] [ -s, --sourcedir source ] [ -d, --destdir destination ]  [
       -i, --icudatadir directory ] [ -c, --to-stdout ] bundle ...

DESCRIPTION

       derb  reads  the  compiled  resource  bundle files passed on the command line and write them back in text
       form.  The resulting text files have a  .txt  extension  while  compiled  resource  bundle  source  files
       typically have a .res extension.

       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.res  for Japanese (Japan) data, or root.res for the root bundle.  This is
       especially important for derb since the locale name is not accessible directly from the compiled resource
       bundle, and to know which locale to ask for when opening the bundle.  derb will produce a file whose base
       name is either the value of the -l, --locale option, or the  same  as  the  base  name  of  the  compiled
       resource  file  itself.   If the --to-stdout, -c option is used, however, the text will be written on the
       standard output.

OPTIONS

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

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

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

       -e, --encoding encoding
              Set the encoding used to write output files to encoding.  The default encoding  is  the  invariant
              (subset  of  ASCII  or  EBCDIC)  codepage  for the system (see section INVARIANT CHARACTERS).  The
              choice of the encoding does not affect the data, just their representation. Characters that cannot
              be represented in the encoding will be represented using \uhhhh escape sequences.

       --bom  Write a byte order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file.

       -l, --locale locale
              Set the locale for the resource bundle, which is used both in the generated text and as  the  base
              name of the output file.

       -t, --truncate [ size ]
              Truncate  individual  resources (strings or binary data) to size bytes. The default if size is not
              specified is 80 bytes.

       -s, --sourcedir source
              Set the source directory to source.  The default source directory is the current directory.  If  -
              is passed for source, then the bundle will be looked for in its default location, specified by the
              ICU_DATA environment variable (or defaulting to the location set when ICU was built if ICU_DATA is
              not set).

       -d, --destdir destination
              Set  the  destination directory to destination.  The default destination 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 example, when processing collation
              overrides, the file ucadata.dat must be located.  The default ICU data directory is  specified  by
              the environment variable ICU_DATA.

       -c, --to-stdout
              Write the disassembled bundle on standard output instead of into a file.

CAVEATS

       When  the option --bom is used, the character U+FEFF is written in the destination encoding regardless of
       whether it is a Unicode transformation format (UTF) or not.  This option should only be used with an  UTF
       encoding, as byte order marks are not meaningful for other encodings.

INVARIANT CHARACTERS

       The  invariant  character  set consists of the following set of characters, expressed as a standard POSIX
       regular expression: [a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|_| |+|-|*|/.  This is the set which is guaranteed to  be  available
       regardless of code page.

ENVIRONMENT

       ICU_DATA  Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to ${prefix}/share/icu/52.1/.  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

       Vladimir Weinstein
       Yves Arrouye

VERSION

       1.0

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 IBM, Inc. and others.

SEE ALSO

       genrb(1)

ICU MANPAGE                                       16 April 2002                                          DERB(1)