ucs2any(1)							      XFree86								ucs2any(1)

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  XFree86  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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