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.\" Hey, Emacs! This is -*-nroff-*- you know...
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.\" gennorm.8: manual page for the gennorm utility
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.\" Copyright (C) 2000-2001 IBM, Inc. and others.
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.TH GENNORM 8 "16 January 2001" "ICU MANPAGE" "ICU @VERSION@ Manual"
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\- compile normalization data from the Unicode Character Database
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.BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
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.BR "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
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.BI "\-u\fP, \fB\-\-unicode" " version"
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.BI "\-c\fP, \fB\-\-copyright"
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.BI "\-s\fP, \fB\-\-sourcedir" " source"
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.BI "\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination"
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reads some of the Unicode Character Database files and compiles their
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normalization information into a binary form.
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can then be read directly by ICU, or used by
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for incorporation into a larger archive or library.
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is passed on the command line, the names of these files will actually
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be changed to include a dash followed by
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in their basename. For example, the file
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would be looked for under the name
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.BR UnicodeData\-\fIsuffix\fP.txt .
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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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.BR "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
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Display extra informative messages during execution.
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.BI "\-u\fP, \fB\-\-unicode" " version"
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of Unicode the Unicode Character Database refers to.
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.BI "\-c\fP, \fB\-\-copyright"
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Include a copyright notice into the binary data.
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.BI "\-s\fP, \fB\-\-sourcedir" " source"
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Set the source directory to
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The default source directory is specified by the environment variable
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.BI "\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination"
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Set the destination directory to
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The default destination directory is specified by the environment variable
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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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The following files are read by
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and are looked for in the
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The main file in the Unicode Character Database. Contains character
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properties, combining classes information, decompositions, names,
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.B DerivedNormalizationProperties.txt
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Derived properties useful in dealing with normalization forms.
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Copyright (C) 2000-2002 IBM, Inc. and others.