ucs2any1

Usage

Overview

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).

--help

prints usage message and exits.

--version

prints version information and exits.

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/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.

Examples

The command

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.