ucs2any - Man Page

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/share/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 re-encode 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.

Info

font-util 1.4.1 X Version 11