Man page 1 : ucs2any

ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 codepoints

ucs2any [

+d |

-d ] source-name{ mapping-fileregistry-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

R <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-fileand registry-encodingoperand 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.bdfand 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.

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ucs2any was written by Markus Kuhn.

Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.