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Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11

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Unicode fonts and tools for X11

The classic X Window System bitmap fonts are now available in an ISO 10646-1/Unicode extension.

We have extended all the “-misc-fixed-*” fonts:

5x7 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--7-70-75-75-C-50-ISO10646-1 5x8 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--8-80-75-75-C-50-ISO10646-1 6x9 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--9-90-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 6x10 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--10-100-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 6x12 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Semicondensed--12-110-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 6x13 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 6x13B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 7x13 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1 7x13B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1 7x14 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1 7x14B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1 8x13 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1 8x13B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1 9x15 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO10646-1 9x15B -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO10646-1 10x20 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO10646-1

Coverage

These fonts now contain all characters found in the following character sets:

ISO 8859 parts 1–5, 7–10, 13–15 (i.e., all parts except Arabic and Thai)

ISO 6937 and the CEN MES-1 European Unicode Subset

IBM/Microsoft code pages CP 437, 850, 1251, 1252, and many others

Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)

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