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
<.
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.