ucs2any(1x)							  ucs2any(1x)



NAME
       ucs2any	-  generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 code-
       points

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
	      .	 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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