1 2015-06-28: Release 8.0.01
3 Updates to support Unicode 8.0.0.
5 2014-10-23: Release 7.0.06
7 A few new scripts were added:
8 U+010350..U+01037F Old Permic
9 U+01F650..U+01F67F Ornamental Dingbats
10 U+01F780..U+01F7FF Geometrical Shapes Extended
11 U+01F800..U+01F8FF Supplemental Arrows-C
13 Various changes were made to Makefiles, Perl scripts, and one bash
14 shell script to conform to Debian Policy Manual version 3.9.6.
16 Several changes were made to Makefiles:
17 * Use "set -e" at the start of multi-command shell invocations,
19 * Use "&&" rather than ";" in multi-command shell invocations,
21 * install now uses "-s" flag for C program binaries.
23 Other minor changes were made to scripts; see ChangeLog
26 2014-10-17: Release 7.0.05
28 Modified ASCII letter 'l' so it would have the same height as
29 the other lower-case letters with ascenders; this is one pixel
30 taller than the capital letters. Lowered the horizontal stroke
31 in 't' by one pixel so it would line up with the horizontal
32 stroke in 'f'; this is one pixel lower than the x-height of
33 the ASCII letters. Letters elsewhere in Plane 0 that were formed
34 with 'k', 'l', or 't' were checked and modified where appropriate
35 to conform with the new ASCII glyphs.
37 Completed the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs script in Plane 1,
38 and modified Plane 1 Emoticons and Transport and Map Symbols scripts.
40 Now create file font/compiled/plane01.html, showing a color-coded
41 indication of completion of all of Unicode Plane 1 as an HTML
42 table in a self-contained HTML file. That and the compiled/index.html
43 are the two HTML files that building the font creates. The plane01.html
44 file gives a color coding to show completion of each 256-glyph block,
45 from 0% (pure red) to 100% (pure green).
47 2014-10-11: Release 7.0.04
49 Added five more Supplemental Multilingual Plane (Plane 1) scripts
50 and improved others thanks to several contributors. There are now
51 over 5,000 drawn assigned glyphs for Plane 1!
53 Reorganized font/plane01 directory. Several other changes; see
54 ChangeLog file for details.
56 unihex2sfd and unipagecount now handle all Unicode planes, not just
60 2014-07-01: Release 7.0.03
62 Minor release for Debian. Added a man page for unihexfill(1);
63 Debian requires a man page for each program.
65 2014-06-22: Release 7.0.02
67 Fixes a bug in font/Makefile: there were two "done" statements at the
68 end of one "for" loop. Also adds many new Supplemental Multilingual
69 Plane (Plane 1) scripts. See the ChangeLog file for details.
71 2014-06-21: Release 7.0.01
73 Provides a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 7.0 Basic
74 Mulitlingual Plane. Also adds more scripts in the Unicode 7.0
75 Supplemental Multilingual Plane. See the ChangeLog file for full
78 Note that the versioning scheme has changed. Instead of a date, this
79 package will use an incrementing minor version number in the future
82 2014-02-14: Release 6.3.20140214
84 This version adds the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 to the "COPYING"
87 2014-02-04: Release 6.3.20140204
89 This version added Qianqian Fang's name to the COPYRIGHT string now
90 passed to Fontforge when the TTF fonts are built, for his contributions
91 contained in the file "font/plane00/wqy.hex".
93 This version also removes "<img>" links to icons on external websites from
94 the "hangul/hangul-generation.html" web page, which were retrieved and
95 stored locally when the original web page was saved in the "hangul/"
98 2014-02-02: Release 6.3.20140202
100 This version is the first designed to easily build multiple fonts.
101 To accomplish this, font/Makefile and font/ttfsrc/Makefile were
102 modified to pass FONT and COMBINING parameters, giving the names
103 of the font file and its associated combining.txt file.
105 This version introduces a subset of Unicode's Supplemental Multilingual
106 Plane (SMP, or Plane 1). The file "font/plane01/plane01.hex" contains
107 a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 5.0 SMP except
108 "Cuneiform" and "Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation"; those two scripts
109 require more resolution than what will fit within a 16 by 16 pixel grid.
110 Andrew Miller drew well over 1,000 glyphs for this effort, and added
111 glyphs for several SMP scripts introduced after Unicode 5.0.
113 This version also introduces a subset of the ConScript Unicode
114 Registry (CSUR) Private Use Area glyphs. Wojciech Stryjewski created
115 glyphs for Tengwar and Klingon -- Tolkien fans and Trekkies rejoice!
116 Paul Hardy drew Cirth to finish the Tolkien set, and drew other scripts.
117 Andrew Miller made very extensive additions for the CSUR; see the
118 ChangeLog for details.
120 Finally, this version includes a special PSF font for using APL
121 in console mode on GNU/Linux. This PSF font contains 512 glyphs
122 as a subset of Unifont; it will not work on systems that only
123 support PSF fonts with 256 glyphs. This PSF font will support
124 GNU APL and several other APL implementations.
126 The names of the font files are as follows:
128 unifont-* Font with Unifont Plane 0 glyphs
130 unifont_sample-* Font with Unifont glyphs, with combining
131 circles added for illustration
133 unifont_csur-* Font with glyphs from Unifont plus the
136 unifont_upper-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 14
138 unifont_upper_csur-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 15
140 Unifont-APL8x16.psf.gz The APL console font
142 Glyphs for code points U+FFFE and U+FFFF, previously added for illustration
143 purposes in unifont_sample, were removed because they caused problems on
144 Microsoft Windows XP. These glyphs are still included in the large bitmap
145 graphic of Unifont but are no longer in the font itself.
147 Many other small changes were made as noted in the ChangeLog file, but
148 support for glyphs beyond Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane is the most
151 2013-12-21: Release 6.3.2013121
153 The default font name that hex2bdf creates has changed from
154 lower-case "unifont" to "Unifont".
156 FontForge's SetFontNames function calls were removed because
157 not all applications correctly interpreted their settings.
158 For example, LibreOffice only listed Unifont by the foundry
159 name ("GNU") rather than foundry + font name ("GNU Unifont")
160 or just the font name. Those calls are only commented out
161 so they could easily be re-introduced.
163 Some glyphs were changed for better appearance with APL.
165 2013-12-17: Release 6.3.20131217
167 This fixes three bugs:
169 * doc/Makefile: removed redirection of texi2pdf output.
170 * font/Makefile: don't modify PCF fonts with FontForge,
171 which alters them so grub-mkfont can't read them.
172 * font/ttfsrc/Makefile: remove *.bdf so unifont_sample.bdf
175 Also includes a few formatting changes; see ChangeLog.
177 2013-12-15: Release 6.3.20131215
179 This version introduces unihex2png and unipng2hex, two Perl scripts
180 that Andrew Miller wrote based upon Paul Hardy's unihex2bmp.c and
181 unibmp2hex.c programs. These new scripts allow conversion between
182 the Unifont .hex format and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files
183 for graphical editing. With this addition, more graphics programs
184 can be used to edit Unifont glyphs.
186 unihex2png and unipng2hex also support glyphs that are 24 or 32
187 pixels tall, in addition to Unifont's default 16 pixels tall.
188 Roman Czyborra's hexdraw and hex2bdf Perl scripts were modified
189 to also support glyphs that are 16, 24, or 32 pixels tall. These
190 changes have not been fully tested, and at this point are considered
193 There are no plans to add this multi-height support to unihex2bmp.c
196 The package now contains a "doc/" directory, with documentation
197 in Texinfo format. Files in the "man/" directory were updated
198 for consistency, especially in noting that all programs are
199 covered under GPLv2+ now.
201 In addition to "unifont-*.*" font files, this package now also creates
202 "unifont_sample-*.*" files. These "Unifont Sample" fonts contain
203 combining circles, and four-digit hexadecimal glyphs for unassigned
204 code points and Private Use Area glyphs. Because of the inclusion
205 of combining cirlces, "Unifont Sample" font versions are only intended
206 for illustrating individual glyphs, not for general-purpose writing.
207 The two generated fonts are unifont_sample-*.bdf and unifont_sample-*.ttf.
208 The TTF file contains SBIT glyphs, not outlined TrueType glyphs like
211 The font versions (BDF, PCF, and TTF) now contain copyright and
212 version information. This will help identify outdated versions
213 of a font in the future. hex2bdf now accepts a version string and
214 a copyright string as command line arguments.
216 To simplify this package supporting two versions of Unifont
217 ("Unifont" and "Unifont Sample"), hex2bdf now accepts a font name
218 as a command line argument. This will streamline adding additional
219 fonts in the future as part of this same package. Note that the
220 old XLFD font name "unifont" has now been capitalized to "Unifont".
222 Many XLFD properties have been added to the BDF version of Unifont
223 in addition to font version and copyright XLFD properties. At least
224 some of these are carried over to the PCF version during conversion
225 with bdftopcf. This has solved an issue with grub-mkfont and FreeType
226 for converting the PCF font into a GRUB version.
228 Some glyphs were redrawn: the Capricorn sign, several CJK Radicals
229 Supplement ideographs, and several Armenian letters. The Armenian
230 letters were modified with the new unihex2png and unipng2hex programs.
232 Further details are in the ChangeLog file.
234 2013-10-20: Release 6.3.20131020
236 This is the first release as part of the GNU Project.