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How To Update Unicode Support

davelab6 edited this page Sep 9, 2012 · 1 revision

You may wish to update FontForge's support for Unicode. This requires building FontForge from source code.

Go to "Unicode" subdirectory of FontForge's sources.

cd unicode/;

Run

make makeutype;

Download these files:

wget http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/LineBreak.txt;
wget http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt;
wget http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/PropList.txt;
wget http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt;

Then run

./makeutype;
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