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-/*
-**********************************************************************
-*   Copyright (c) 2001, International Business Machines
-*   Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
-**********************************************************************
-*   Date        Name        Description
-*   11/29/2001  aliu        Creation.
-**********************************************************************
-*/
-package com.ibm.icu.text;
-import java.util.*;
-import com.ibm.icu.dev.tool.translit.UnicodeSetClosure;
-import java.io.*;
-
-/**
- * This is a small class that resides in the com.ibm.icu.text package in
- * order to access some package-private API.  It is used for
- * development purposes and should be ignored by end clients.
- * To run, use:
- * java -classpath classes com.ibm.icu.text.TransliteratorUtility Latin-Katakana NFD lower
- * Output is produced in the command console, and a file with more detail is also written.
- * To see if it works, use:
- * java -classpath classes com.ibm.icu.dev.test.translit.TransliteratorTest -v -nothrow TestIncrementalProgress
- * and 
- * java -classpath classes com.ibm.icu.dev.demo.translit.Demo
- */
-public class TransliteratorUtility {
-
-    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
-        if (args.length == 0) {
-            // Compute and display the source sets for all system
-            // transliterators.
-            for (Enumeration e = Transliterator.getAvailableIDs(); e.hasMoreElements(); ) {
-                String ID = (String) e.nextElement();
-                showSourceSet(ID, Normalizer.NONE, false);
-            }
-        } else {
-            // Usage: ID [NFKD | NFD] [lower]
-            Normalizer.Mode m = Normalizer.NONE;
-            boolean lowerFirst = false;
-            if (args.length >= 2) {
-                if (args[1].equalsIgnoreCase("NFD")) {
-                    m = Normalizer.NFD;
-                } else if (args[1].equalsIgnoreCase("NFKD")) {
-                    m = Normalizer.NFKD;
-                } else {
-                    usage();
-                }
-            }
-            if (args.length >= 3) {
-                if (args[2].equalsIgnoreCase("lower")) {
-                    lowerFirst = true;
-                } else {
-                    usage();
-                }
-            }
-            if (args.length > 3) {
-                usage();
-            }
-            showSourceSet(args[0], m, lowerFirst);
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Hook to allow tools to access package private method.
-     */
-    public static UnicodeSet getSourceSet(Transliterator t) {
-        return t.getSourceSet();
-    }
-
-    static void showSourceSet(String ID, Normalizer.Mode m, boolean lowerFirst) throws IOException {
-        File f = new File("UnicodeSetClosure.txt");
-        String filename = f.getCanonicalFile().toString();
-        out = new PrintWriter(
-            new OutputStreamWriter(
-                new FileOutputStream(filename), "UTF-8"));
-        out.print('\uFEFF'); // BOM
-        System.out.println();
-        System.out.println("Writing " + filename);
-        Transliterator t = Transliterator.getInstance(ID);
-        showSourceSetAux(t, m, lowerFirst, true);
-        showSourceSetAux(t.getInverse(), m, lowerFirst, false);
-        out.close();
-    }
-    
-    static PrintWriter out;
-    
-    static void showSourceSetAux(Transliterator t, Normalizer.Mode m, boolean lowerFirst, boolean forward) throws IOException {
-        UnicodeSet sourceSet = t.getSourceSet();
-        if (m != Normalizer.NONE || lowerFirst) {
-            UnicodeSetClosure.close(sourceSet, m, lowerFirst);
-        }
-        System.out.println(t.getID() + ": " +
-                           sourceSet.toPattern(true));
-        out.println("# MINIMAL FILTER GENERATED FOR: " + t.getID() + (forward ? "" : " REVERSE"));
-        out.println(":: " 
-            + (forward ? "" : "( ") 
-            + sourceSet.toPattern(true) 
-            + (forward ? "" : " )")
-            + " ;");
-        out.println("# Unicode: " + sourceSet.toPattern(false));
-        out.println();
-    }
-
-    static void usage() {
-        System.err.println("Usage: ID [ NFD|NFKD [lower] ]");
-        System.exit(1);
-    }
-}