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 itself.

       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  default  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 detected if a byte order mark  (BOM)  is
              present.

       -j, --write-java [ encoding ]
              Generate  a  Java  source  code  for use with ICU4J. An optional encoding for the Java file can be
              given.

       -s, --sourcedir source
              Set the source directory to source.  The default source directory 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 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.

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/55.1/.  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

       55.1

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2000-2002 IBM, Inc. and others.

SEE ALSO

       derb(1)
       pkgdata(1)