From: Shane F. Carr Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:27:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ICU-20841 Update buildtool docs according to user feedback. X-Git-Tag: release-66-preview~21 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b77e86869089ac5c5dc86343e3ea160b1fc64ab5;p=icu ICU-20841 Update buildtool docs according to user feedback. See #835 --- diff --git a/docs/userguide/icu_data/buildtool.md b/docs/userguide/icu_data/buildtool.md index 4262e414b0a..aa34b8ed8e5 100644 --- a/docs/userguide/icu_data/buildtool.md +++ b/docs/userguide/icu_data/buildtool.md @@ -45,10 +45,12 @@ Unix or when building the data package on Windows. For example: ICU_DATA_FILTER_FILE=filters.json path/to/icu4c/source/runConfigureICU Linux -You must have the data sources in order to use the ICU Data Build Tool. -Check for the file icu4c/source/data/locales/root.txt. If that file is -missing, you need to download "icu4c-*-data.zip" and replace the contents of -icu4c/source/data with the data directory from the zip file. +**Important:** You *must* have the data sources in order to use the ICU Data +Build Tool. Check for the file icu4c/source/data/locales/root.txt. If that file +is missing, you need to download "icu4c-\*-data.zip", delete the old +icu4c/source/data directory, and replace it with the data directory from the zip +file. If there is a \*.dat file in icu4c/source/data/in, that file will be used +even if you gave ICU custom filter rules. In order to use Hjson syntax, the `hjson` pip module must be installed on your system. You should also consider installing the `jsonschema` module to