ucs2any - points
/usr/bin/ucs2any [ +d | -d ] source-name { mapping-file registry-encod-
ing } ...
ucs2any(1) General Commands Manual ucs2any(1)
NAME
ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 code-
points
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/ucs2any [ +d | -d ] source-name { mapping-file registry-encod-
ing } ...
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 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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