1 2014-10-11: Release 7.0.04
3 Added five more Supplemental Multilingual Plane (Plane 01) scripts
4 and improved others thanks to several contributors. There are now
5 over 5,000 drawn assigned glyphs for Plane 01!
7 Reorganized font/plane01 directory. Several other changes; see
8 ChangeLog file for details.
10 unihex2sfd and unipagecount now handle all Unicode planes, not just
14 2014-07-01: Release 7.0.03
16 Minor release for Debian. Added a man page for unihexfill(1);
17 Debian requires a man page for each program.
19 2014-06-22: Release 7.0.02
21 Fixes a bug in font/Makefile: there were two "done" statements at the
22 end of one "for" loop. Also adds many new Supplemental Multilingual
23 Plane (Plane 1) scripts. See the ChangeLog file for details.
25 2014-06-21: Release 7.0.01
27 Provides a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 7.0 Basic
28 Mulitlingual Plane. Also adds more scripts in the Unicode 7.0
29 Supplemental Multilingual Plane. See the ChangeLog file for full
32 Note that the versioning scheme has changed. Instead of a date, this
33 package will use an incrementing minor version number in the future
36 2014-02-14: Release 6.3.20140214
38 This version adds the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 to the "COPYING"
41 2014-02-04: Release 6.3.20140204
43 This version added Qianqian Fang's name to the COPYRIGHT string now
44 passed to Fontforge when the TTF fonts are built, for his contributions
45 contained in the file "font/plane00/wqy.hex".
47 This version also removes "<img>" links to icons on external websites from
48 the "hangul/hangul-generation.html" web page, which were retrieved and
49 stored locally when the original web page was saved in the "hangul/"
52 2014-02-02: Release 6.3.20140202
54 This version is the first designed to easily build multiple fonts.
55 To accomplish this, font/Makefile and font/ttfsrc/Makefile were
56 modified to pass FONT and COMBINING parameters, giving the names
57 of the font file and its associated combining.txt file.
59 This version introduces a subset of Unicode's Supplemental Multilingual
60 Plane (SMP, or Plane 1). The file "font/plane01/plane01.hex" contains
61 a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 5.0 SMP except
62 "Cuneiform" and "Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation"; those two scripts
63 require more resolution than what will fit within a 16 by 16 pixel grid.
64 Andrew Miller drew well over 1,000 glyphs for this effort, and added
65 glyphs for several SMP scripts introduced after Unicode 5.0.
67 This version also introduces a subset of the ConScript Unicode
68 Registry (CSUR) Private Use Area glyphs. Wojciech Stryjewski created
69 glyphs for Tengwar and Klingon -- Tolkien fans and Trekkies rejoice!
70 Paul Hardy drew Cirth to finish the Tolkien set, and drew other scripts.
71 Andrew Miller made very extensive additions for the CSUR; see the
72 ChangeLog for details.
74 Finally, this version includes a special PSF font for using APL
75 in console mode on GNU/Linux. This PSF font contains 512 glyphs
76 as a subset of Unifont; it will not work on systems that only
77 support PSF fonts with 256 glyphs. This PSF font will support
78 GNU APL and several other APL implementations.
80 The names of the font files are as follows:
82 unifont-* Font with Unifont Plane 0 glyphs
84 unifont_sample-* Font with Unifont glyphs, with combining
85 circles added for illustration
87 unifont_csur-* Font with glyphs from Unifont plus the
90 unifont_upper-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 14
92 unifont_upper_csur-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 15
94 Unifont-APL8x16.psf.gz The APL console font
96 Glyphs for code points U+FFFE and U+FFFF, previously added for illustration
97 purposes in unifont_sample, were removed because they caused problems on
98 Microsoft Windows XP. These glyphs are still included in the large bitmap
99 graphic of Unifont but are no longer in the font itself.
101 Many other small changes were made as noted in the ChangeLog file, but
102 support for glyphs beyond Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane is the most
105 2013-12-21: Release 6.3.2013121
107 The default font name that hex2bdf creates has changed from
108 lower-case "unifont" to "Unifont".
110 FontForge's SetFontNames function calls were removed because
111 not all applications correctly interpreted their settings.
112 For example, LibreOffice only listed Unifont by the foundry
113 name ("GNU") rather than foundry + font name ("GNU Unifont")
114 or just the font name. Those calls are only commented out
115 so they could easily be re-introduced.
117 Some glyphs were changed for better appearance with APL.
119 2013-12-17: Release 6.3.20131217
121 This fixes three bugs:
123 * doc/Makefile: removed redirection of texi2pdf output.
124 * font/Makefile: don't modify PCF fonts with FontForge,
125 which alters them so grub-mkfont can't read them.
126 * font/ttfsrc/Makefile: remove *.bdf so unifont_sample.bdf
129 Also includes a few formatting changes; see ChangeLog.
131 2013-12-15: Release 6.3.20131215
133 This version introduces unihex2png and unipng2hex, two Perl scripts
134 that Andrew Miller wrote based upon Paul Hardy's unihex2bmp.c and
135 unibmp2hex.c programs. These new scripts allow conversion between
136 the Unifont .hex format and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files
137 for graphical editing. With this addition, more graphics programs
138 can be used to edit Unifont glyphs.
140 unihex2png and unipng2hex also support glyphs that are 24 or 32
141 pixels tall, in addition to Unifont's default 16 pixels tall.
142 Roman Czyborra's hexdraw and hex2bdf Perl scripts were modified
143 to also support glyphs that are 16, 24, or 32 pixels tall. These
144 changes have not been fully tested, and at this point are considered
147 There are no plans to add this multi-height support to unihex2bmp.c
150 The package now contains a "doc/" directory, with documentation
151 in Texinfo format. Files in the "man/" directory were updated
152 for consistency, especially in noting that all programs are
153 covered under GPLv2+ now.
155 In addition to "unifont-*.*" font files, this package now also creates
156 "unifont_sample-*.*" files. These "Unifont Sample" fonts contain
157 combining circles, and four-digit hexadecimal glyphs for unassigned
158 code points and Private Use Area glyphs. Because of the inclusion
159 of combining cirlces, "Unifont Sample" font versions are only intended
160 for illustrating individual glyphs, not for general-purpose writing.
161 The two generated fonts are unifont_sample-*.bdf and unifont_sample-*.ttf.
162 The TTF file contains SBIT glyphs, not outlined TrueType glyphs like
165 The font versions (BDF, PCF, and TTF) now contain copyright and
166 version information. This will help identify outdated versions
167 of a font in the future. hex2bdf now accepts a version string and
168 a copyright string as command line arguments.
170 To simplify this package supporting two versions of Unifont
171 ("Unifont" and "Unifont Sample"), hex2bdf now accepts a font name
172 as a command line argument. This will streamline adding additional
173 fonts in the future as part of this same package. Note that the
174 old XLFD font name "unifont" has now been capitalized to "Unifont".
176 Many XLFD properties have been added to the BDF version of Unifont
177 in addition to font version and copyright XLFD properties. At least
178 some of these are carried over to the PCF version during conversion
179 with bdftopcf. This has solved an issue with grub-mkfont and FreeType
180 for converting the PCF font into a GRUB version.
182 Some glyphs were redrawn: the Capricorn sign, several CJK Radicals
183 Supplement ideographs, and several Armenian letters. The Armenian
184 letters were modified with the new unihex2png and unipng2hex programs.
186 Further details are in the ChangeLog file.
188 2013-10-20: Release 6.3.20131020
190 This is the first release as part of the GNU Project.