ucs2any(1x)
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 <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.
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
AUTHOR
ucs2any was written by Markus Kuhn.
- Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian
Project.