ucs2any
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Updated: font-util 1.0.1
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NAME
ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 codepoints
SYNOPSIS
ucs2any
[
+d
|
-d
]
source-name
{
mapping-file
registry-encoding
}
...
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
- +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).
OPERANDS
- 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/X11R6/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.
EXAMPLE
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.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
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.
SEE ALSO
bdftruncate(1)
AUTHOR
ucs2any
was written by Markus Kuhn.
Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.