1 2014-02-14: Release 6.3.20140214
3 This version adds the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 to the "COPYING"
6 2014-02-04: Release 6.3.20140204
8 This version added Qianqian Fang's name to the COPYRIGHT string now
9 passed to Fontforge when the TTF fonts are built, for his contributions
10 contained in the file "font/plane00/wqy.hex".
12 This version also removes "<img>" links to icons on external websites from
13 the "hangul/hangul-generation.html" web page, which were retrieved and
14 stored locally when the original web page was saved in the "hangul/"
17 2014-02-02: Release 6.3.20140202
19 This version is the first designed to easily build multiple fonts.
20 To accomplish this, font/Makefile and font/ttfsrc/Makefile were
21 modified to pass FONT and COMBINING parameters, giving the names
22 of the font file and its associated combining.txt file.
24 This version introduces a subset of Unicode's Supplemental Multilingual
25 Plane (SMP, or Plane 1). The file "font/plane01/plane01.hex" contains
26 a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 5.0 SMP except
27 "Cuneiform" and "Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation"; those two scripts
28 require more resolution than what will fit within a 16 by 16 pixel grid.
29 Andrew Miller drew well over 1,000 glyphs for this effort, and added
30 glyphs for several SMP scripts introduced after Unicode 5.0.
32 This version also introduces a subset of the ConScript Unicode
33 Registry (CSUR) Private Use Area glyphs. Wojciech Stryjewski created
34 glyphs for Tengwar and Klingon -- Tolkien fans and Trekkies rejoice!
35 Paul Hardy drew Cirth to finish the Tolkien set, and drew other scripts.
36 Andrew Miller made very extensive additions for the CSUR; see the
37 ChangeLog for details.
39 Finally, this version includes a special PSF font for using APL
40 in console mode on GNU/Linux. This PSF font contains 512 glyphs
41 as a subset of Unifont; it will not work on systems that only
42 support PSF fonts with 256 glyphs. This PSF font will support
43 GNU APL and several other APL implementations.
45 The names of the font files are as follows:
47 unifont-* Font with Unifont Plane 0 glyphs
49 unifont_sample-* Font with Unifont glyphs, with combining
50 circles added for illustration
52 unifont_csur-* Font with glyphs from Unifont plus the
55 unifont_upper-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 14
57 unifont_upper_csur-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 15
59 Unifont-APL8x16.psf.gz The APL console font
61 Glyphs for code points U+FFFE and U+FFFF, previously added for illustration
62 purposes in unifont_sample, were removed because they caused problems on
63 Microsoft Windows XP. These glyphs are still included in the large bitmap
64 graphic of Unifont but are no longer in the font itself.
66 Many other small changes were made as noted in the ChangeLog file, but
67 support for glyphs beyond Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane is the most
70 2013-12-21: Release 6.3.2013121
72 The default font name that hex2bdf creates has changed from
73 lower-case "unifont" to "Unifont".
75 FontForge's SetFontNames function calls were removed because
76 not all applications correctly interpreted their settings.
77 For example, LibreOffice only listed Unifont by the foundry
78 name ("GNU") rather than foundry + font name ("GNU Unifont")
79 or just the font name. Those calls are only commented out
80 so they could easily be re-introduced.
82 Some glyphs were changed for better appearance with APL.
84 2013-12-17: Release 6.3.20131217
86 This fixes three bugs:
88 * doc/Makefile: removed redirection of texi2pdf output.
89 * font/Makefile: don't modify PCF fonts with FontForge,
90 which alters them so grub-mkfont can't read them.
91 * font/ttfsrc/Makefile: remove *.bdf so unifont_sample.bdf
94 Also includes a few formatting changes; see ChangeLog.
96 2013-12-15: Release 6.3.20131215
98 This version introduces unihex2png and unipng2hex, two Perl scripts
99 that Andrew Miller wrote based upon Paul Hardy's unihex2bmp.c and
100 unibmp2hex.c programs. These new scripts allow conversion between
101 the Unifont .hex format and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files
102 for graphical editing. With this addition, more graphics programs
103 can be used to edit Unifont glyphs.
105 unihex2png and unipng2hex also support glyphs that are 24 or 32
106 pixels tall, in addition to Unifont's default 16 pixels tall.
107 Roman Czyborra's hexdraw and hex2bdf Perl scripts were modified
108 to also support glyphs that are 16, 24, or 32 pixels tall. These
109 changes have not been fully tested, and at this point are considered
112 There are no plans to add this multi-height support to unihex2bmp.c
115 The package now contains a "doc/" directory, with documentation
116 in Texinfo format. Files in the "man/" directory were updated
117 for consistency, especially in noting that all programs are
118 covered under GPLv2+ now.
120 In addition to "unifont-*.*" font files, this package now also creates
121 "unifont_sample-*.*" files. These "Unifont Sample" fonts contain
122 combining circles, and four-digit hexadecimal glyphs for unassigned
123 code points and Private Use Area glyphs. Because of the inclusion
124 of combining cirlces, "Unifont Sample" font versions are only intended
125 for illustrating individual glyphs, not for general-purpose writing.
126 The two generated fonts are unifont_sample-*.bdf and unifont_sample-*.ttf.
127 The TTF file contains SBIT glyphs, not outlined TrueType glyphs like
130 The font versions (BDF, PCF, and TTF) now contain copyright and
131 version information. This will help identify outdated versions
132 of a font in the future. hex2bdf now accepts a version string and
133 a copyright string as command line arguments.
135 To simplify this package supporting two versions of Unifont
136 ("Unifont" and "Unifont Sample"), hex2bdf now accepts a font name
137 as a command line argument. This will streamline adding additional
138 fonts in the future as part of this same package. Note that the
139 old XLFD font name "unifont" has now been capitalized to "Unifont".
141 Many XLFD properties have been added to the BDF version of Unifont
142 in addition to font version and copyright XLFD properties. At least
143 some of these are carried over to the PCF version during conversion
144 with bdftopcf. This has solved an issue with grub-mkfont and FreeType
145 for converting the PCF font into a GRUB version.
147 Some glyphs were redrawn: the Capricorn sign, several CJK Radicals
148 Supplement ideographs, and several Armenian letters. The Armenian
149 letters were modified with the new unihex2png and unipng2hex programs.
151 Further details are in the ChangeLog file.
153 2013-10-20: Release 6.3.20131020
155 This is the first release as part of the GNU Project.