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/usr/bin/ucs2any

X.org font utilities

From font-util 1.4.2-r2 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running ucs2any --help (exit 0). permalink

Usage: ucs2any [+d|-d] <source-name> { <mapping-file> <registry-encoding> }
   or: ucs2any [--help|--version]

where

   +d                   put DEC VT100 graphics characters in the C0 range
                        (default for upright charcell fonts)

   -d                   do not put DEC VT100 graphics characters in the
                        C0 range (default for all other font types)

   <source-name>        is the name of an ISO10646-1 encoded BDF file

   <mapping-file>       is the name of a character set table like those on
                        <ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/>

   <registry-encoding>  are the CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING
                        field values for the font name (XLFD) of the
                        target font, separated by a hyphen

Example:

   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
Options (3)
OptionDescriptionSource
-domits DEC VT100 graphics characters from the C0 range (default for all font types except upright, character-cell fonts).help + man
--helpprints usage message and exits. (in the manual page but not in --help)man
--versionprints version information and exits. (in the manual page but not in --help)man

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.