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1.\" Hey, Emacs! This is -*-nroff-*- you know...
2.\"
3.\" gennames.8: manual page for the gennames utility
4.\"
5.\" Copyright (C) 2000 IBM, Inc. and others.
6.\"
7.TH GENNAMES 8 "13 November 2001" "ICU MANPAGE" "ICU @VERSION@ Manual"
8.SH NAME
9.B gennames
10\- compile Unicode code points names into a data file
11.SH SYNOPSIS
12.B gennames
13[
14.BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
15]
16[
17.BR "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
18]
19[
20.BR "\-q\fP, \fB\-\-quiet"
21]
22[
23.BI "\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination"
24]
25[
26.BI "\-u\fP, \fB\-\-unicode" " version"
27]
28[
29.BI "\-1\fP, \fB\-\-unicode1-names"
30]
31[
32.IR filename
33]
34.SH DESCRIPTION
35.B gennames
36reads the Unicode character database from
37.I filename
38and produce the file
39.I unames.dat
40in its destination directory.
41Optionally, Unicode 1.0 names can be chosen over Unicode 2.0 names for
42those code points whose names were changed for Unicode 2.0.
43.SH OPTIONS
44.TP
45.BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
46Print help about usage and exit.
47.TP
48.BR "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
49Display extra informative messages during execution.
50.TP
51.BR "\-q\fP, \fB\-\-quiet"
52Do not display any message during execution.
53.TP
54.BI "\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination"
55Set the destination directory to
56.IR destination .
57The default destination directory is specified by the environment variable
58.BR ICU_DATA ,
59or the location set when ICU was built if
60.B ICU_DATA
61is not set.
62.TP
63.BI "\-u\fP, \fB\-\-unicode" " version"
64Mark the character names as belong to the specified
65.I version
66of Unicode. The default version is 3.1.1.
67.TP
68.BI "\-1\fP, \fB\-\-unicode1-names"
69Store Unicode 1.0 names in addition of Unicode 2.0 names for
70those code points whose names were changed for Unicode 2.0.
71.SH ENVIRONMENT
72.TP 10
73.B ICU_DATA
74Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to
75.BR @thepkgicudatadir@/@PACKAGE@/@VERSION@/ .
76Some tools in ICU depend on the presence of the trailing slash. It is thus
77important to make sure that it is present if
78.B ICU_DATA
79is set.
80.SH VERSION
81@VERSION@
82.SH COPYRIGHT
83Copyright (C) 2000-2001 IBM, Inc. and others.
84.SH SEE ALSO
85.BR genprops (8)