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14<h2> What are letest and gendata?</h2>
15letest is a program you can use to verify that you have built and
16installed the ICU LayoutEngine correctly. The test is not comprehensive,
17it just verifies that the results of laying out some Devanagari, Arabic
18and Thai text are as expected. Once this test has passed, you can use
19the ICU LayoutEngine in your application knowing that it has been
20correctly installed and that the basic functionality is in place.
21<p>gendata is a program that is used by the ICU team to build the
22source file testdata.cpp, which contains the expected results of running
23letest. Unless you have changed your copy of the LayoutEngine and want
24to validate the changes on other platforms, there's no reason for you
25to run this program. </p>
26<p>(The ICU team first runs a Windows application which uses the ICU
27LayoutEngine to display the text that letest uses. Once it has been
28verified that the text is displayed correctly, gendata is run to produce
29testdata.cpp, and then letest is run on Windows to verify that letest
30still works with the new data.) <br>
31&nbsp; </p>
32<h2> How do I build letest?</h2>
33First, you need to build ICU, including the LayoutEngine.
34<p>On Windows, the layout project should be listed as a dependency of
35all, so layout will build when you build all. If it doesn't for some
36reason, just select the layout project in the project toolbar and build
37it. </p>
38<p>On UNIX systems, you need to add the "--enable-layout=yes" option
39when you invoke the runConfigureICU script. When you've done that,
40layout should build when you do "make all install" </p>
41<p>To build letest on Windows, just open the letest project in
42&lt;icu&gt;\source\test\letest and build it. On UNIX systems, connect to
43&lt;top-build-dir&gt;/test/letest and do "make all" <br>
44&nbsp; </p>
45<h2> How do I run letest?</h2>
46Before you can run letest, you'll need to get the fonts it uses. For
47legal reasons, we can't include them with ICU, but you can download them
48from the web. To do this, you'll need access to a computer running
49Windows. Here's how to get the fonts:
50<p>Download the 1.3 version of the JDK from the<a
51 href="http://www.ibm.com/java"> IBM developerWorks Java technology zone</a>
52page. From this page, follow the "Tools and products" link on the left
53hand side, and then the link for the "IBM Developer Kit for Linux", or
54the "IBM Developer Kit for Windows(R), Release 1.3.0". You'll need to
55register with them if you haven't downloaded before. Download and
56install the "Runtime Environment Package." You'll need two fonts from
57this package. If you've let the installer use it's defaults, the fonts
58will be in C:\Program Files\IBM\Java13\jre\lib\fonts. The files you want
59are "LucidaSansRegular.ttf" and "Thonburi.ttf" Copy these font files to
60the directory from which you'll run letest.<br>
61</p>
62<p>Next is the Hindi font. Go to the&nbsp; NCST site and download&nbsp;<a
63 href="http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/download/font/raghu.ttf">
64raghu.ttf</a>. Be sure to look at the&nbsp;<a
65 href="http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/download/font/README"> README</a>
66file before you download the font. You can download raghu.ttf into the
67directory from which you'll run letest.<br>
68</p>
69<p>There's still one more font to get, the Code2000 Unicode font.Go to
70James Kass' &nbsp;<a href="http://home.att.net/%7Ejameskass/">Unicode
71Support In Your Browser</a> page and click on the link that says "Click
72Here to download Code2000 shareware demo Unicode font." This will
73download a .ZIP file which contains CODE2000.TTF and CODE2000.HTM.
74Expand this .ZIP file and put the CODE2000.TTF file in the directory
75from which you'll run letest.<br>
76</p>
77<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note:</span> The Code2000 font is
78shareware. If you want to use it for longer than a trial period, you
79should send a shareware fee to James. Directions for how to do this are
80in CODE2000.HTM.</p>
81<p>That's it! Now all you have to do is run letest (CTRL+F5 in Visual
82C++, or "./letest" in UNIX) If&nbsp; everything's OK you should see
83something like this: </p>
84<blockquote><tt>Test 0, font = raghu.ttf... passed.</tt> <br>
85 <tt>Test 1, font = CODE2000.TTF... passed.</tt> <br>
86 <tt>Test 2, font = LucidaSansRegular.ttf... passed.</tt> <br>
87 <tt>Test 3, font = Thonburi.ttf... passed.</tt></blockquote>
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