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ICU-72 Documentation update
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<p><br>
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<br>
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</p>
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<h3><u>Contents</u></h3>
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format to create messages</li>
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<li>Text collation supporting language sensitive comparison of strings</li>
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<li>Text boundary analysis for finding characters, word and sentence boundaries</li>
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<li>Changing simple data files rather than modifying program code easily localizes
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applications written using these tools</li>
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<li>Over 150 locales supported. Visit <a
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href="http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/localeexplorer">LocaleExplorer</a>
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site for a demonstration and a full list of supported locales</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Changing simple data files rather than modifying program code easily localizes
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applications written using these tools. The following locales are supported: <font
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face="Courier New">ar, ar_AE, ar_BH, ar_DZ, ar_EG, ar_IQ, ar_JO, ar_KW, ar_LB, ar_LY,
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ar_MA, ar_OM, ar_QA, ar_SA, ar_SD, ar_SY, ar_TN, ar_YE, be, be_BY, bg, bg_BG, ca, ca_ES,
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ca_ES_EURO, cs, cs_CZ, da, da_DK, de, de_AT, de_AT_EURO, de_CH, de_DE, de_DE_EURO, de_LU,
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de_LU_EURO, el, el_GR, en, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_IE, en_IE_EURO, en_NZ, en_US, en_ZA,
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es, es_AR, es_BO, es_CL, es_CO, es_CR, es_DO, es_EC, es_ES, es_ES_EURO, es_GT, es_HN,
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es_MX, es_NI, es_PA, es_PE, es_PR, es_PY, es_SV, es_UY, es_VE, et, et_EE, fi, fi_FI,
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fi_FI_EURO, fr, fr_BE, fr_BE_EURO, fr_CA, fr_CH, fr_FR, fr_FR_EURO, fr_LU, fr_LU_EURO, hr,
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hr_HR, hu, hu_HU, index, is, is_IS, it, it_CH, it_IT, it_IT_EURO, iw, iw_IL, ja, ja_JP,
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ko, ko_KR, lt, lt_LT, lv, lv_LV, mk, mk_MK, nl, nl_BE, nl_BE_EURO, nl_NL, nl_NL_EURO, no,
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no_NO, no_NO_NY, pl, pl_PL, pt, pt_BR, pt_PT, pt_PT_EURO, ro, ro_RO, ru, ru_RU, sh, sh_YU,
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sk, sk_SK, sl, sl_SI, sq, sq_AL, sr, sr_YU, sv, sv_SE, th, th_TH, tr, tr_TR, uk, uk_UA,
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vi, vi_VN, zh, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW.</font></p>
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<p>It is possible to support additional locales by adding more locale data files, with no
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code changes. </p>
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<p>All files are contained in <b>icu-XXXXXX.zip.</b> <br>
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Please unzip this file. It will re-construct the source directory. Please be sure to
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do "<strong>unzip -a icu-XXXXXX.zip -d drive:\directory</strong>" on Win32 platforms.
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This will convert the line feed/carriage return characters correctly on windows.
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Before running the test programs or samples, please set the environment variable <strong>ICU_DATA</strong>,
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the full pathname of the data directory, to indicate where the locale data files and
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conversion mapping tables are. If this variable is not set, the default user data
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directory will be used.</p>
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do "<strong>unzip -a icu-XXXXXX.zip -d drive:\directory</strong>" or use WinZip
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on Win32 platforms. This will convert the line feed/carriage return characters
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correctly on windows. </p>
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<p>Below, <b>$Root</b> is the placement of the icu directory in your file system, like "drive:\...\icu" in your environment.
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"drive:\..." stands for any drive and any directory on that drive that you chose to install icu into.</p>
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<p>Below, <b>$Root</b> is the placement of the icu directory in your file system, like
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"drive:\...\icu" in your environment. "drive:\..." stands for any
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drive and any directory on that drive that you chose to install icu into.</p>
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<p><b>The following files describe the code drop:</b> <br>
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<br>
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<tr>
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<td WIDTH="20%">$Root\source\tools\genrb</td>
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<td WIDTH="80%">This tool converts the portable locale data files in text format to
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machine-specific binary format for resource bundle performance efficiency. To run
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this tool on all the locale data files, please type the following commands on the
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supported platforms:<ul>
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<li>Win32: <strong>genrb Debug</strong> (or "genrb Release" for release build)</li>
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<li>UNIX: type <strong>make</strong> under the command prompt. All the binary format
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resource files will be created automatically.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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machine-specific binary format for resource bundle performance efficiency.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td WIDTH="20%">$Root\source\tools\gencol</td>
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<td WIDTH="80%"> <p>This tool converts the collation rules in the portable locale data
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files in text format to machine-specific binary collation data. To run this tool for
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all the supported collators, please type the following under the command prompt on the
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supported platforms:<ul>
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<li>Win32: <strong>gencol</strong> </li>
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<li>UNIX: type <strong>make</strong> under the command prompt. All the binary format
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collation files will be created automatically.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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<td WIDTH="80%">This tool converts the collation rules in the portable locale data files
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in text format to machine-specific binary collation data.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td WIDTH="20%">$Root\source\tools\makeconv</td>
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<td WIDTH="80%"> <p>This tool converts the native encoding to/from UCS-2 mapping table in
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text format to machine-specific binary format. To run this tool for all the
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supported converters, please type the following under the command prompt on the supported
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platforms:<ul>
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<li>Win32: <strong>makeconv Debug </strong>(or "makeconv Release" for release
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build) </li>
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<li>UNIX: type <strong>make</strong> under the command prompt. All the binary format
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conversion tables will be created automatically.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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<td WIDTH="80%">This tool converts the native encoding to/from UCS-2 mapping table in text
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format to machine-specific binary format.</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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output icu
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_____|_____ ______________|______________________________
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libraries programs include data source | |
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(built) (built) (built) | readme.html license.html
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libraries programs include data source | |
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(built) (built) (built) | readme.html license.html
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_________________|__________________________
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<p><u>To change your PATH:</u> Do this under NT by using the System control panel.
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Pick the "Environment" tab, select the variable PATH in the lower box. In
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the "value" box, append the string ";drive:\...\icu\bin\Debug" at the end of
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the path string. If there is nothing there, just type in
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the "value" box, append the string ";drive:\...\icu\bin\Debug" at the
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end of the path string. If there is nothing there, just type in
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"drive:\...\icu\bin\Debug". Click the Set button, then the Ok button. </p>
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<p><u>Link with Runtime libraries:</u> All the DLLs link with the C runtime library
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<p>The steps are:
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<ol>
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<li>Unzip the icu-XXXX.zip file, type "unzip -a icu-XXXX.zip -d drive:\directory" under
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command prompt. drive:\directory\icu is the root ($Root) directory
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(you may but don't need to place "icu" into another directory).
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If you change the root, you will
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change the project settings accordingly in EACH makefile in the project, updating the
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include and library paths.</li>
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<li>Unzip the icu-XXXX.zip file, type "unzip -a icu-XXXX.zip -d drive:\directory"
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under command prompt or use WinZip. drive:\directory\icu is the root ($Root)
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directory (you may but don't need to place "icu" into another directory). If you
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change the root, you will change the project settings accordingly in EACH makefile in the
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project, updating the include and library paths.</li>
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<li>Set the environment variable <strong>ICU_DATA</strong>, the full pathname of the data
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directory, to indicate where the locale data files and conversion mapping tables are.</li>
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<li>Start Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.</li>
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<li>Choose "File" menu and select "Open WorkSpace".</li>
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<li>In the file chooser, choose icu\source\allinone\allinone.dsw. Open this workspace.</li>
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the Debug and Release configurations at the same time, choose "Build" menu and
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select "Batch Build..." instead (and mark all configurations as checked), then
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click the button named "Rebuild All".</li>
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<li>Repeat step6-8 and set "makeconv" project to be active and build the makeconv
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tool.</li>
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<li>Repeat step9 to build both genrb and gencol tools.</li>
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<li>Run the mkcnvfle.bat script to create the converter data files in binary format.</li>
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<li>Run the genrb.bat script to create the locale data files in binary format.</li>
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<li>Repeat steps 7-9 for makeconv (set active project to "makeconv"), genrb
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("genrb") and gencol ("gencol") tools.</li>
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<li>Run the mkcnvfle.bat script to create the converter data files in binary format. The
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script requires two arguments, where first is either "Release" or
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"Debug" reflecting the type of build and the second is path to the icu
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directory.</li>
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<li>Run the genrb.bat script to create the locale data files in binary format. The script
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requires two arguments, where first is either "Release" or "Debug"
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reflecting the type of build and the second is path to the icu directory</li>
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<li>Run the gencol.exe program to pre-load the collation data and create the collation data
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in binary format.</li>
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<li>Save the value of the "TZ" environment variable and then set it to
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"PST8PDT". </li>
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<li>Save the value of the <strong>TZ</strong> environment variable and then set it to <strong>PST8PDT</strong>.
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</li>
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<li>Reopen the "allinone" project file and run the "intltest" test.
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Reset the "TZ" value.</li>
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<li>To run the C test suite, set "cintltst" as the active project and repeat step
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7, 8 and then run the "cintltst" test..</li>
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Reset the <strong>TZ</strong> value.</li>
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<li>To run the C test suite, set "cintltst" as the active project, repeat steps 8,
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9 and then run the "cintltst" test..</li>
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<li>Build and run as outlined above.</li>
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</ol>
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<b>
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them on the menu bar for later selection.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>It is also possible to build each library individually, using the Makefiles in each
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<p>It is also possible to build each library individually, using the workspaces in each
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respective directory. They have to be built in the following order: <br>
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1. common <br>
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2. i18n <br>
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<ol>
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<li>Unzip the icu-XXXX.zip file with the "-a" option.</li>
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<li>Before running the test programs or samples, please set the environment variable <strong>ICU_DATA</strong>,
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the full pathname of the data directory, to indicate where the locale data files and
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conversion mapping tables are. If this variable is not set, the default user data
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directory will be used.</li>
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<li>Change directory to the "icu/source".</li>
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<li>If it is not already set, please set the executable flag for the following files (by
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executing 'chmod +x' command): configure, install.sh and config.*, </li>
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<li>Type "./configure" or type "./configure --help" to print the
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avialable options.</li>
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<li>Type "make" to compile the libraries and all the data files.</li>
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