ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 codepoints
ucs2any [ +d | -d ] source-name {
mapping-file registry-encoding } ...
ucs2any allows one to generate from an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF font other
BDF fonts in any possible encoding. This way, one can derive from a single ISO
10646-1 master font a whole set of 8-bit fonts in all ISO 8859 and various
other encodings.
- +d
- puts DEC VT100 graphics characters in the C0 range (default for upright,
character-cell fonts).
- -d
- omits DEC VT100 graphics characters from the C0 range (default for all
font types except upright, character-cell fonts).
- source-name
- is the name of an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF file.
- mapping-file
- is the name of a character set table like those at
<ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/>. These files can
also typically be found installed in the
/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/util directory.
- registry-encoding
- are the CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING field values for the font
name (XLFD) of the target font, separated by a hyphen.
Any number of mapping-file and registry-encoding
operand pairs may be specified.
The command
ucs2any 6x13.bdf 8859-1.TXT iso8859-1 8859-2.TXT
iso8859-2
will generate the files 6x13-iso8859-1.bdf and 6x13-iso8859-2.bdf.
Hopefully a future release will have a facility similar to ucs2any built
into the server, and reencode ISO 10646-1 on the fly, because storing the same
fonts in many different encodings is clearly a waste of storage capacity.
ucs2any was written by Markus Kuhn.
Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian
Project.