From ce89f70176943117f8cd06408270391287c81a45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Weinstein Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 00:07:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ICU-157 reflecting the changes in data handling X-SVN-Rev: 324 --- icu4c/readme.html | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/icu4c/readme.html b/icu4c/readme.html index 2fa3271be48..6a664e2b432 100644 --- a/icu4c/readme.html +++ b/icu4c/readme.html @@ -35,9 +35,7 @@ Reserved.

  • Platform Dependencies
  • Important Notes regarding Win32
  • How to Install/Build
    • -
  • How to add a locale data file
    • -
  • How to add resource bundle data to your application
    • -
  • Where Collation Data is Stored
    • +
  • How ICU handles data
  • Character Set Conversion Information
  • Programming Notes
  • Where to Find More Information
    • @@ -157,23 +155,24 @@ drive and any directory on that drive that you chose to install icu into.

  • UCM files which contain mapping tables {from,to} Unicode in text format
  • CNV files are non-portable packed binary conversion data generated by the makeconv tool.
    • +
  • icudata.dll file contains data files in a dynamic loadable library format. At this + moment, this file contains CNV files, converter aliases, timezone data and Unicode + character names. Please read udata.html for more + information.
    • +
  • icudata.dat file contains data files in a memory mapped file format. At this moment, + this file contains CNV files, converter aliases, timezone data and Unicode character + names. Please read udata.html for more information.
    • - $Root\source\tools\genrb - This tool converts the portable locale data files in text format to - machine-specific binary format for resource bundle performance efficiency. + $Root\source\tools + Tools for generating the data files. Data files are generated by invoking + $Root\source\tools\makedata.bat on Win32 or $Root\source\make install on Unix. - $Root\source\tools\gencol - This tool converts the collation rules in the portable locale data files - in text format to machine-specific binary collation data. - - - $Root\source\tools\makeconv - This tool converts the native encoding to/from UCS-2 mapping table in text - format to machine-specific binary format. + $Root\source\samples + Various sample programs that use ICU @@ -435,8 +434,10 @@ respective directory. They have to be built in the following order:
    the test suite.
    Regarding the test suite, please read the directions in docs/intltest.html and docs/cintltst.html

    + -

    +

    How ICU handles data

    +

    How to add a locale data file

    @@ -743,10 +744,12 @@ int32_t get2dArrayElement(int32_t rowIndex, 

    http://www.ibm.com/java/tools/international-classes/ is a pointer to general information about the International Classes For Unicode.

    -

    html/aindex.html is an alphabetical index to detailed -API documentation.
    -html/HIERjava.html is a hierarchical index to detailed -API documentation.

    +

    docs\udata.html is a raw draft of ICU data handling.

    + +

    html/aindex.html is an alphabetical index to +detailed API documentation.
    +html/HIERjava.html is a hierarchical index to +detailed API documentation.

    docs\collate.html is an overview to Collation.