ucs2any

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: font-util 1.2.0
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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/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 reencode ISO 10646-1 on the fly, because storing the same fonts in many different encodings is clearly a waste of storage capacity.

AUTHOR

ucs2any was written by Markus Kuhn.

Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 05:29:11 GMT, December 24, 2015