XFree86 includes two new Unicode-encoded fonts with a large collection of non-ideographic glyphs. While it is possible to use these fonts as main fonts, applications are expected to use them as fallbacks when a given glyph is not available in the current font.
The font file
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13.pcf.gz
with XLFD
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
is a Unicode-encoded version of the standard `fixed
' font with
added support for the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, IPA
and other scripts plus numerous technical symbols. It contains over
2800 characters, covering all characters of ISO 8859 parts 1-5,
7-10, 13-15, as well as all European IBM and Microsoft code pages,
KOI8, WGL4, and the repertoires of many other character sets. This
font is compatible with the standard 8-bit fixed
font and
therefore also includes the DEC line-drawing glyphs in the range 0x00
to 0x1F, which are not part of Unicode or ISO 10646-1.
XFree86 changes the standard aliases `fixed
' and `6x13
' to
stand for this new Unicode-encoded font. The old ISO 8859-1
encoded `fixed
' font is still available under its full XLFD name
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
in the file
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13-L1.pcf.gz
The ClearlyU font set of fonts provides a set of 12pt, 100dpi proportional fonts with many of the glyphs needed for Unicode text. Together, the fonts contain over 4000 glyphs.
The main ClearlyU font has XLFD name
-mutt-ClearlyU-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-101-iso10646-1
and resides in the font file
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cu12.pcf.gz
Additional ClearlyU fonts include
-mutt-ClearlyU Alternate Glyphs-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-91-iso10646-1
-mutt-ClearlyU Arabic Extra-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-103-fontspecific-0
-mutt-ClearlyU Ligature-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-141-fontspecific-0
-mutt-ClearlyU PUA-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-111-iso10646-1