ucs2any1x
Generate bdf fonts containing subsets of iso 10646-1 codepoints
Usage
ucs2any [{+d | -d}]
source-name
mapping-file
registry-encoding ...
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).
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/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.
Examples
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 XFree86 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.
Releases
2 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.