GNU Unifont is an official GNU package. It is a dual-width
(8x16/16x16) bitmap font, designed to provide coverage for
all of Unicode Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
-This version has a glyph for each visible code point in the
-Unicode 6.3 Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0).
+
+GNU Unifont has a glyph for each visible code point in the
+Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0) and some glyphs
+in the Supplemental Multilingual Plane (Plane 1). This version
+also includes many glyphs in Michael Everson's ConScript
+Unicode Registry (CSUR).
Unifont only provides a single glyph for each character, making it
impossible to handle any language properly that needs context-dependent
ChangeLog Log of changes made to each GNU release
COPYING Full text of GPL version 2
doc Documentation in Texinfo format
- font Everything you need to build the font from scratch
+ font The font source file with scripts for building
hangul Standalone font sources to build hangul-syllables.hex
INSTALL Instructions for font and software installation
Makefile The "make" file
The "font/precompiled" directory contains prebuilt font-related files:
- coverage.txt Percentage coverage of each Plane 0 script
+ coverage.txt Percentage coverage of Plane 0 scripts
- unifont-<version>.hex Hex string source of glyphs to build Unifont
+ unifont-<version>.hex Hex string source of glyphs to build
+ Unifont
unifont-<version>.bdf.gz BDF version of Unifont
unifont-<version>.pcf.gz PCF version of Unifont
unifont-<version>.ttf TrueType version of Unifont
- unifont_sample-<version>.hex Hex string source of all Plane 0 glyphs,
- including nonprinting and PUA glyphs, with
- combining circles
+ unifont_sample-<version>.hex Hex string source of all Plane 0 glyphs
+ (except those for U+FFFE and U+FFFF),
+ including nonprinting and PUA glyphs,
+ with combining circles
unifont_sample-<version>.bdf.gz BDF font version of the above .hex file
unifont_sample-<version>.ttf SBIT font version of the above .hex file
- unifont-<version>.bmp The entire Plane 0 font with combining circles,
- actually built from unifont_sample-*.hex to
- show combining circles
+ unifont_csur-<version>.* Fonts containing Plane 0 Unifont glyphs
+ plus glyphs for Michael Everson's
+ ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) for
+ the Plane 0 Private Use Area
+
+ unifont_upper-<version>.* Fonts containing glyphs from Unicode
+ Plane 1 through Plane 14, inclusive
+
+ unifont_upper_csur-<version>.* Fonts containing glyphs from Unifont
+ Upper plus glyphs from Michael Everson's
+ ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) that
+ are in the Private Use Area in Plane 15
+
+ unifont-<version>.bmp The entire Plane 0 Unifont font with
+ combining circles, built from the files
+ font/plane00/*.hex, showing combining
+ circles
+
+The directory that was originally named "font/hexsrc" has been renamed
+to "font/plane00" now that Unifont supports glyphs beyond Plane 0. Higher
+plane glyphs appear in "font/plane01" through "font/plane0F". Currently
+there is no "font/plane10" directory (the highest Unicode plane is Plane 17,
+or 0x10).
This release incorporates all glyph errata issued by The Unicode Consortium
from Unicode 1.0 errata to the latest.
src/ AUTHORS
------------
Roman Czyborra wrote all the Perl files in the src directory except
-"hex2sfd", "unifontchojung", "unifontksx", "unihex2png", and "unipng2hex".
+"hex2sfd", "hexkinya", "unifontchojung", "unifontksx", "unihex2png",
+and "unipng2hex".
+
In the case of "johab2ucs2", Jungshik Shin wrote the orignial version;
he then gave it to Roman. Paul Hardy made further changes to "johab2ucs2".
Paul Hardy wrote "unifontchojung" and "unifontksx" for extracting subsets
of Hangul glyphs, as an aid in creating a new Hangul Syllables block.
-Andrew Miller wrote "unihex2png" and "unipng2hex" based upon Paul
-Hardy's "unihex2bmp" and "unibmp2hex" programs.
+Andrew Miller wrote "hexkinya". He also wrote "unihex2png" and "unipng2hex"
+based upon Paul Hardy's "unihex2bmp" and "unibmp2hex" programs. Last but not
+least, he wrote the "unifont-viewer" Perl script to graphically view a Unifont
+hex file dynamically.
Paul Hardy wrote all the C programs.
.hex format. For greater detail, see the HISTORY section below.
David Starner aggregated many glyphs contributed by others and
-built these into pre-2004 Unifont releases.
+incorporated these into pre-2004 Unifont releases.
Qianqian Fang began his Wen Quan Yi font in 2004, by which
time work on Unifont had stopped. Most of the almost 30,000
CJK ideographs in Unifont versions 5.1 and later were taken
from Wen Quan Yi with permission of Qianqian Fang. The glyphs
-in "./font/hexsrc/wqy-cjk.hex" are for the most part Qianqian
+in "./font/plane00/wqy-cjk.hex" are for the most part Qianqian
Fang's Unibit and Wen Quan Yi glyphs.
Paul Hardy drew most of the newly-drawn glyphs added to the BMP
Andrew Miller drew the glyphs added to Unicode 6.3.0.
+For higher planes and the Private Use Area glyphs, see the ChangeLog
+file.
+
LICENSE
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- unigencircles - adds dashed combining circles to unifont.hex glyphs
for code points that are in "font/ttfsrc/combining.txt" but not in
- "font/hexsrc/nonprinting.hex". Written by Paul Hardy.
+ "font/plane00/nonprinting.hex". Written by Paul Hardy.
- unigenwidth - creates an implementation of the POSIX functions
wcwidth() and wcswidth() as specified in IEEE 1003.1-2008, Vol. 2:
The result is now there is just one variation of output font rather than
four. That one is used to generate the TrueType "unifont.ttf" font.
-The directory "font/hexsrc" contains the .hex input files for building
+The directory "font/plane00" contains the .hex input files for building
Unifont, and contains these files:
hangul-syllables.hex Unicode Hangul Syllables, U+AC00..U+D7A3
(suggested as an acceptable rendering in the Unicode 5.0 Standard),
now replaced with optional four-digit hexadecimal code point glyphs;
thought not built into the final font by default, they are available
- in "font/hexsrc/pua.hex"
+ in "font/plane00/pua.hex"
- Replacement of the Unifont 5.1 gray box glyphs for unassigned
code points with four-digit hexadecimal glyphs; these are built
git.shiar.nl / unifont.git / blobdiff