This release posed a new challenge: new Chinese ideographs in the BMP to
represent Orthodox Church Slavonic comprised of two fairly complex
Chinese ideographs. The high number of strokes in these additions
required adopting unihex2bmp, unibmp2hex, and unifontpic to work with
quadruple-width glyphs.
The unihex2bmp and unibmp2hex utilities now
provide round-trip conversion between ".hex" and ".bmp" Unifont formats
for quadruple-width glyphs. The unifontpic utility compresses
triple-width and quadruple-width glyphs by 50 percent. This was not
ideal, but was the most practical solution to keep the picture size a
manageable size of less than one meter square. The unihex2png and
unipng2hex utilities do not support these wider glyphs at this point.
There were also many changes to glyphs from the previous version. See the ChangeLog file in the main tarball for details.
Sincerely,
Paul Hardy
GNU Unifont Maintainer