ucs2any(1) User Commands ucs2any(1)

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/fonts/X11/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 re-encode 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.

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