ucs2any
(1)
Name
ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO
10646-1 codepoints
Synopsis
/usr/bin/ucs2any [ +d | -d ] source-name { mapping-file reg-
istry-encoding } ...
Description
User Commands ucs2any(1)
NAME
ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO
10646-1 codepoints
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/ucs2any [ +d | -d ] source-name { mapping-file reg-
istry-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 reencode ISO 10646-1 on
the fly, because storing the same fonts in many different
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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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |x11/font-utilities |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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