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• .TH UCS2ANY __appmansuffix__ 2025-04-27 __vendorversion__
  .SH NAME
  ucs2any \- generate BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 codepoints
  .SH SYNOPSIS
  .B ucs2any
  [
  .B +d
  |
  .B \-d
  ]
  .I source-name
  {
  .I mapping-file
  .I registry-encoding
  }
  \&.\|.\|.
  .sp
  .B ucs2any
  [
  .B \-\-help
  |
  .B \-\-version
  ]
  .SH DESCRIPTION
  .B 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.
  .SH OPTIONS
  .TP
  .B +d
  puts DEC VT100 graphics characters in the C0 range
  (default for upright, character-cell fonts).
  .TP
  .B \-d
  omits DEC VT100 graphics characters from the C0 range
  (default for all font types except upright, character-cell fonts).
  .TP
  .B \-\-help
  prints usage message and exits.
  .TP
  .B \-\-version
  prints version information and exits.
  .SH OPERANDS
  .TP
  .I source-name
  is the name of an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF file.
  .TP
  .I mapping-file
  is the name of a character set table like those at
  .BR <ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/> .
  These files can also typically be found installed in the
  .I __mapfilesdir__
  directory.
  .TP
  .I registry-encoding
  are the CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING field values for the font
  name (XLFD) of the target font, separated by a hyphen.
  .PP
  Any number of
  .I mapping-file
  and
  .I registry-encoding
  operand pairs may be specified.
  .SH EXAMPLE
  The command
  .RS
  ucs2any 6x13.bdf 8859\-1.TXT iso8859\-1 8859\-2.TXT iso8859\-2
  .RE
  will generate the files
  .I 6x13\-iso8859\-1.bdf
  and
  .IR 6x13\-iso8859\-2.bdf .
  .SH FUTURE DIRECTIONS
  Hopefully a future release will have a facility similar to
  .B ucs2any
  built into the server, and re-encode ISO 10646-1 on the fly, because
  storing the same fonts in many different encodings is clearly a waste of
  storage capacity.
  .SH "SEE ALSO"
  .BR bdftruncate (1)
  .SH AUTHOR
  .B ucs2any
  was written by Markus Kuhn.
  .PP
  Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project.