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ucs2any

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: fon-util 1.3.2
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NAME

ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 1064-1 codepoints

SYNOPSIS

ucs2any [ +d | -d ] sourc-name { mappin-file registr-encoding } ...

DESCRIPTION

ucs2any allows one to generate from an ISO 1064-1 encoded BDF font other BDF fonts in any possible encoding. This way, one can derive from a single ISO 1064-1 master font a whole set of -bit fonts in all ISO 8859 and various other encodings.

OPTIONS

+d: puts DEC VT100 graphics characters in the C0 range (default for upright, characte-cell fonts).
-d: omits DEC VT100 graphics characters from the C0 range (default for all font types except upright, characte-cell fonts).

OPERANDS

sourc-name: is the name of an ISO 1064-1 encoded BDF file.
mappin-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/util directory.
registr-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 mappin-file and registr-encoding operand pairs may be specified.

EXAMPLE

The command

: ucs2any 6x13.bdf 885-1.TXT iso885-1 885-2.TXT iso885-2

will generate the files 6x1-iso885-1.bdf and 6x1-iso885-2.bdf.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Hopefully a future release will have a facility similar to ucs2any built into the server, and reencode ISO 1064-1 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.