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| <p><font size="5"><b>ReadMe: The Character Set Conversion Tool |
| for Unicode</b></font> </p> |
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| (C) Copyright International Business Machines Corporation, 1998 <br> |
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| <p><font size="4"><b>Introduction</b></font> </p> |
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| <p><b>makeconv</b> is a tool that converts character set |
| conversion data into binary files for use by the UnicodeConverter |
| C code. The UnicodeConverter code will not function with text |
| format data files. The user of charset conversion library will |
| need to convert all the data files in text format into binary |
| format. </p> |
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| <p>For a IBM registered code page to/from Unicode conversion data |
| file in the specified data path, it generates .cnv files, which |
| it puts in the same directory. The tool takes a list of file |
| names as argument, with their absolute or relative path, and will |
| generate a corresponding ".cnv" file with the same |
| path. On Unix shells one can easily convert all the |
| ".cnv" files from the text files in the data directory |
| by using wildcards (e.g. <b>makeconv ../../data/locales/*.ucm</b>). |
| On Win32 we have provided a batch file "<b>mkcnvfle.bat</b>" |
| in the same directory you will find <b>makeconv.c</b>. <b>mkcnvfle</b> |
| converts all the ".ucm" files in intlwork/data/locales |
| to ".cnv" files. It requires one argument : Debug or |
| Release so it knows where to look for the makeconv.exe. <br> |
| (Win32 usage:<b> \intlwork\tools\makeconv\mkcnvfle.bat Debug</b> |
| for debug build, <b>\intlwork\tools\makeconv\mkcnvfle.bat Release</b>, |
| otherwise<b>.</b>) </p> |
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| <li><b>Create a binary file for codepage IBM-949 in the data |
| path "\intlwork\data\locales\"</b>: type in at |
| the command prompt, "<b>makeconv</b><font |
| face="Courier"> \intlwork\data\locales\ibm-949.ucm". |
| </font>The generated binary file will be located in the |
| same directory.</li> |
| <li><b>Look for the codepage IBM-949 data file in the current |
| working directory</b>: type in at the command prompt, |
| "<b>makeconv</b><font face="Courier"> ibm-949.ucm</font>". |
| The tool will try to locate the file "<font |
| face="Courier">ibm-949.ucm</font>" in the current |
| directory. The generated binary file, "<font |
| face="Courier">ibm-949.cnv</font>" will be located |
| in current working directory.</li> |
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| <p><font size="4"><b>Building the Tool</b></font> </p> |
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| <p><font size="3">To build the tool on Win32 environment is very |
| easy, simply open the "makeconv</font><font size="3" |
| face="Courier">.dsw</font><font size="3">" workspace project |
| file in MSVC++ 5.0 compiler.</font> <br> |
| On Unix the process of building the tool and the ".cnv" |
| files is included in the build process of the library. The |
| provided makefiles will <br> |
| attempt to build <b>makeconv</b> as it builds other parts of the |
| library. It will also convert all the initial ".ucm" |
| files in data/locales to ".cnv" files. </p> |
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| <p><font size="4"><b>Limitations</b></font> </p> |
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| <p>The tools uses stdio.h functions to communicate success or |
| failure to the user. Platforms that don't support stdio will have |
| to adapt <br> |
| that portion of the code. <br> |
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