Sources of free / open source fonts: Editors, converters and other tools: - fontforge is a tool for creating, editing and converting font sets
- otf2bdf is a tool to convert TrueType or Open Type fonts to BDF; you can read more on the man page
UPDATE: I recently (June 1, 2011) couldn't download the file from the original location, so I found and downloaded it from the NetBSD public FTP repository of source packages. [link to otf2bdf package] [link to NetBSD repository]
- You can convert from Unicode (1- to 4-byte) fonts to ISO 8859 (1 byte) characters by using mapping files and the "-m <mapfile>" option. Some map files come with the tool; others can be found at the unicode.org website -- but you will need to insert two lines near the top of the file if you use these:
- REGISTRY ISO8859
- ENCODING <encoding number (1-16)>
Miscellaneous references: - Wikipedia:
- ISO 8859 (8-bit character sets)
- During research on support for Romanian characters, I read up on the use of S-comma (the correct character to use) versus S-cedilla (borrowed from Turkish character set)
- The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup, a description of the variations of ISO 8859 (8-bit character) sets. Includes downloads for BDF format font sets.
- Description of font naming convention
- Documents about UTF-8 encoding:
- Installing fonts on Linux systems:
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