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/X11R6/lib/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.
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.
