• NAME
  
  ucs2any - generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 codepoints
• SYNOPSIS
  
  ucs2any [ +d | -d ] source-name { mapping-file registry-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/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.

• 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.

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