gensprep - Man Page

gensprep [ -h, -?, --help ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -c, --copyright ] [ -s, --sourcedir source ] [ -d, --destdir destination ]

gensprep reads filtered RFC 3454 files and compiles their information into a binary form. The resulting file, <name>.icu, can then be read directly by ICU, or used by pkgdata(8) for incorporation into a larger archive or library.

The files read by gensprep are described in the Files section.

-h,  -?,  --help

Print help about usage and exit.

-v,  --verbose

Display extra informative messages during execution.

-c,  --copyright

Include a copyright notice into the binary data.

-s,  --sourcedir source

Set the source directory to source. The default source directory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA.

-d,  --destdir destination

Set the destination directory to destination. The default destination directory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA.

ICU_DATA

Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to /usr/share/icu/74.2/. 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.

The following files are read by gensprep and are looked for in the source /misc for rfc3454_*.txt files and in source /unidata for NormalizationCorrections.txt.

rfc3453_A_1.txt

Contains the list of unassigned codepoints in Unicode version 3.2.0....

rfc3454_B_1.txt

Contains the list of code points that are commonly mapped to nothing....

rfc3454_B_2.txt

Contains the list of mappings for casefolding of  code points when Normalization form NFKC is specified....

rfc3454_C_X.txt

Contains the list of code points that are prohibited for IDNA.

NormalizationCorrections.txt

Contains the list of code points whose normalization has changed since Unicode Version 3.2.0.

74.2

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

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