ucs2any
generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 codepoints
see also :
bdftruncate
Synopsis
ucs2any
[ +d | -d ] source-name {
mapping-file registry-encoding } ...
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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).
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.
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/share/fonts/X11/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.
see also
bdftruncate
author
ucs2any
was written by Markus Kuhn.
Branden
Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian
Project.