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+ISO 10646-1 update of the fixed fonts
+-------------------------------------
+
+Markus Kuhn <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- 2000-12-10
+
+This is an update of all -Misc-Fixed-* fonts in the subdirectory
+
+ xc/fonts/bdf/misc/
+
+We have extended all old -Misc-Fixed-* fonts from their original ISO
+646.119-IRV or ISO 8859-1 repertoire to a comprehensive repertoire in
+the ISO 10646-1 encoding (UCS, Unicode). All extended fonts have been
+carefully tested to cover a repertoire that includes all characters
+found in ISO 6937, ISO 8859-1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,13,14,15,16, and
+CP1251/1252. The non-bold/italic fonts also cover the Adobe/Microsoft
+WGL4 repertoire, which includes the characters of all MS-DOS code
+pages. Some fonts (6x13, 9x15, 9x18, 10x20) cover considerably more,
+including the full European Unicode subset CEN MES-3B, which covers
+all Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian, Thai, phonetic, and
+mathematical characters.
+
+Eight new ISO 10646-1 fonts were added, for which there was no
+equivalent version in the X11R6.4 distribution before, and which
+should be highly useful:
+
+ 6x13O.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Semicondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1
+ 7x13O.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1
+ 8x13O.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1
+ 9x18.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
+ 9x18B.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
+ 12x13ja.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1
+ 18x18ja.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-18-120-100-100-C-180-ISO10646-1
+ 18x18ko.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ko-18-120-100-100-C-180-ISO10646-1
+
+6x13O and 8x13O are oblique/italic fonts. 9x18 is an improved variant
+of 9x15 designed to have enough space to allow the unproblematic use
+of overstriking combining characters, 18x18ja and 18x18ko provide
+Japanese and Korean doublewidth ideographic characters for 9x18, and
+12x13ja provides Japanese and Hangul doublewidth ideographic
+characters for 6x13.
+
+This update contains not only new ISO10646-1 fonts, but also a
+collection of 8-bit fonts that were automatically generated from the
+ISO10646-1 fonts. All these derived 8-bit fonts have the
+-REGISTRY-ENCODING part of the XLFD in the filename (e.g.,
+6x13-ISO8859-1.bdf). Some of these derived fonts replace old 8-bit
+fonts (with some stylistic improvements and bug fixes), others provide
+new urgently needed 8-bit encoding alternatives for very widely-used
+font sizes.
+
+The ISO10646-1 fonts in this package (except for 12x13ja, 18x18ja, and
+18x18ko) contain no characters above 0x31FF. This avoids the very
+inefficient allocation and transmission of a >700 kB large XFontStruct
+structure, which would happen if the (not very important) ligatures
+and symbols above 0xf000 were present.
+
+Installation instructions:
+
+ - Only the directory xc/fonts/bdf/misc/ (if you patch the X source
+ distribution) or /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ (if you patch a system
+ installation) will be affected by this update.
+
+ - Do in xc/fonts/bdf/misc/ or /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ a
+
+ rm 7x13euro.bdf 7x13euroB.bdf heb6x13.bdf heb8x13.bdf 7x14rk.bdf
+
+ because these old 8-bit files are now superseeded by the new
+ *-ISO8859-15.bdf, *-ISO8859-8.bdf, and *-JISX0201.1976-0 files.
+
+ - If you patch the X source tree, move from this tarball the files
+
+ *.bdf fonts.alias Imakefile
+
+ into xc/fonts/bdf/misc/.
+
+ - If you patch an installed system, move instead from this package
+ the files
+
+ *.pcf.gz fonts.alias
+
+ into /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ and then call "mkfontdir" there
+ and also execute "xset fp rehash".
+
+The new *-*.bdf files will not be necessary any more as soon as the
+font reencoding engine in the BDF backend is operational, because then
+these encodings can be generated by the X server automatically and
+on-the-fly from the ISO 10646-1 files (perhaps in XFree86 4.1?).
+
+The font files in this package were all automatically generated by a
+few Perl scripts. Please do not edit these font files if you want to
+make contributions. Instead, if you want to edit the fonts, please get
+the latest original BDF files in
+
+ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz
+
+which also contains the ucs2any.pl and bdftruncate.pl scripts and the
+encoding mapping files that were used to generate all the font files
+found in this tarball. See also the README file in there for further
+hints on how to use these fonts.
+
+This package is available from
+
+ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fixed.tar.gz
+
+Please send any feedback and patches related to these fonts to
+
+ Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk
+
+or to
+
+ fonts@xfree86.org
+
+Markus
+
+--
+Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK