Unicode fonts and tools for X11
Unicode fonts and tools for X11
The classic X Window System bitmap<br>fonts are now available in an ISO 10646-1/Unicode extension.
We have extended all the “-misc-fixed-*” fonts:
5x7 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--7-70-75-75-C-50-ISO10646-1<br>5x8 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--8-80-75-75-C-50-ISO10646-1<br>6x9 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--9-90-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1<br>6x10 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--10-100-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1<br>6x12 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Semicondensed--12-110-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1<br>6x13 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1<br>6x13B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1<br>7x13 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1<br>7x13B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1<br>7x14 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1<br>7x14B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1<br>8x13 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1<br>8x13B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1<br>9x15 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO10646-1<br>9x15B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO10646-1<br>10x20 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO10646-1
Coverage
These fonts now contain all characters found in the<br>following character sets:
ISO 8859 parts 1–5, 7–10, 13–15 (i.e., all parts except Arabic and Thai)
ISO 6937 and the CEN MES-1<br>European Unicode Subset
IBM/Microsoft code pages CP 437, 850, 1251, 1252, and many others
Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)
KOI8-R
DEC VT100 graphics symbols
The 6x13, 8x13, 9x15, 9x18, and 10x20 fonts cover, in addition, a<br>much larger repertoire that includes the comprehensive CEN<br>MES-3A European Unicode 3.2 Subset, the International Phonetic<br>Alphabet, Armenian, Georgian, Thai, Yiddish, all Latin, Greek, and<br>Cyrillic characters, all mathematical symbols (including the entire<br>TeX repertoire), APL, Braille, Runes, and much more. 9x15 and 10x20<br>also cover Ethiopian.
Newly added fonts
The following new “-misc-fixed-*” fonts were added:
6x13O -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1<br>7x13O -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1<br>8x13O -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1<br>9x18 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1<br>9x18B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1<br>12x13ja -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1<br>18x18ja -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-18-120-100-100-C-180-ISO10646-1<br>18x18ko -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ko-18-120-100-100-C-180-ISO10646-1
6x13O, 7x13O, and 8x13O are oblique/italic versions of 6x13, 7x13,<br>and 8x13. 9x18 is an improved version of 9x15 that has more space<br>above and below the base characters to increase readability and to<br>allow overstriking combining characters to work properly. 18x18ja and<br>18x18ko provide Japanese and Korean doublewidth ideograms for 9x18.<br>12x13ja provides Japanese doublewidth ideograms for 6x13.
Adobe BDF fonts
I have also created revised ISO10646-1 versions of all the Adobe<br>and B&H pixel fonts that come with X11R6.4. They contained about<br>30 additional PostScript characters (roughly the CP1252 repertoire)<br>that were present in the old ISO8859-1 BDF files, but were not encoded<br>and therefore not accessible to X clients. The revised ISO10646-1<br>versions contain not only these but also many more automatically<br>generated accented Latin characters (e.g., all characters from ISO<br>8859 parts 1–4, 9–10, 13–15), and they also fix a few long-standing<br>bugs with the old fonts (missing NBSP, exchanged<br>multiplication/division sign, etc.).
Status
The fonts are now complete and currently implement version 3.2 of<br>the Unicode standard (ISO 10646-1/Amd.1:2002). I will maintain them to<br>fix bugs and to satisfy any newly reported user requirements. Note<br>that the new fonts fix a problem with the<br>Latin-1 quotation mark and accents.
Download
The fonts are freely available with installation instructions and<br>example UTF-8 text files.
The “-misc-fixed-*” font package:<br>https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz<br>CJK ideographic wide character supplement<br>(unpack into the same subdirectory as the above):<br>https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts-asian.tar.gz<br>The Adobe and B&H font package:<br>https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts-75dpi100dpi.tar.gz
There is also a change log<br>file for the “-misc-fixed-*” fonts.
Other character sets
The font packages include the ucs2any.pl Perl script,<br>which converts ISO 10646-1 fonts into any other encoding for which<br>there is a Unicode<br>mapping table available. This way, you can quickly generate ISO<br>8859-* versions from the above fonts automatically, for the benefit of<br>older software that cannot yet handle ISO 10646-1 fonts directly.
Distribution
I periodically contribute a recent snapshot of all of the above<br>fonts to XFree86 and they have<br>been shipping as part of the XFree86 releases since XFree86...