Fonts in XFree86 : Unicode-encoded bitmap fonts
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2. Unicode-encoded bitmap fonts

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 may also use them as fallbacks when a given glyph is not available in the current font.

2.1. The Unicode `fixed' 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.

An ISO 8859-1 version of this font is still available in file

/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
with XLFD
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
The standard aliases `fixed' and `6x13' still point at the ISO 8859-1 versions of the font.

2.2. The ClearlyU Unicode font

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


Fonts in XFree86 : Unicode-encoded bitmap fonts
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