gendict - Compiles word list into ICU string trie dictionary

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS CAVEATS ENVIRONMENT AUTHORS VERSION COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

NAME

gendict − Compiles word list into ICU string trie dictionary

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.