1ucs2any(1)                  General Commands Manual                 ucs2any(1)
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NAME

6       ucs2any  -  generate  BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 code‐
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SYNOPSIS

10       ucs2any [ +d | -d ] source-name { mapping-file registry-encoding } ...
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DESCRIPTION

13       ucs2any allows one to generate from an ISO  10646-1  encoded  BDF  font
14       other  BDF  fonts  in  any possible encoding.  This way, one can derive
15       from a single ISO 10646-1 master font a whole set of 8-bit fonts in all
16       ISO 8859 and various other encodings.
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OPTIONS

19       +d     puts  DEC VT100 graphics characters in the C0 range (default for
20              upright, character-cell fonts).
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22       -d     omits DEC VT100 graphics characters from the C0  range  (default
23              for all font types except upright, character-cell fonts).
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OPERANDS

26       source-name
27              is the name of an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF file.
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29       mapping-file
30              is   the   name   of   a  character  set  table  like  those  at
31              <ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/>.  These files can  also
32              typically  be  found  installed in the /usr/share/X11/fonts/util
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35       registry-encoding
36              are the CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING field  values  for
37              the font name (XLFD) of the target font, separated by a hyphen.
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39       Any  number  of mapping-file and registry-encoding operand pairs may be
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EXAMPLE

43       The command
44              ucs2any 6x13.bdf 8859-1.TXT iso8859-1 8859-2.TXT iso8859-2
45       will generate the files 6x13-iso8859-1.bdf and 6x13-iso8859-2.bdf.
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FUTURE DIRECTIONS

48       Hopefully a future release will have  a  facility  similar  to  ucs2any
49       built  into  the  server,  and reencode ISO 10646-1 on the fly, because
50       storing the same fonts in many different encodings is clearly  a  waste
51       of storage capacity.
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SEE ALSO

54       bdftruncate(1)
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AUTHOR

57       ucs2any was written by Markus Kuhn.
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59       Branden  Robinson  wrote  this  manual  page, originally for the Debian
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