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This is an example font containing one glyph, for ASCII capital “A”. This glyph is taken from the [[GNU Unifont]].
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<nowiki>STARTFONT 2.1
FONT -gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
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ENDCHAR
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{{Col-begin|class=mw-collapsible mw-collapsed}}
|+'''Decoded hexdraw representation of the example'''
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{{Col-2}}
{{sxhl|2=hexdump|
00 00000000 --------
00 00000000 --------
00 00000000 --------
00 00000000 --------
18 00011000 ---██---
24 00100100 --█--█--
24 00100100 --█--█--
42 01000010 -█----█-
42 01000010 -█----█-
7E 01111110 -██████-
42 01000010 -█----█-
42 01000010 -█----█-
42 01000010 -█----█-
42 01000010 -█----█-
00 00000000 --------
00 00000000 --------
.. ........ .248124.
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{{Col-end}}
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In the above example, the global declarations begin with the {{code|STARTFONT}} line and end with the {{code|CHARS}} line.
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{{code|ENDFONT}} appears as the last line in the file, after all glyphs in the font have been enumerated.
==Version 2.2
Version 2.2 of the BDF specification adds support for non-Western fonts. These additions allow moving the origin by a positive or negative movement on the X and Y axes. This not only accommodates right-to-left writing direction, but even top-to-bottom (for example, for Chinese). The following values provide multinational-font support:
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For more detailed information, consult the version 2.2 specification.
==X Window
X Window font utilities support several properties that can be specified in the {{code|STARTPROPERTIES}} section of a BDF file.<ref>{{cite book|last=Flowers |first=Jim |title=X Logical Font Description Conventions |orig-year=1988 |url=http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.5.0/doc/xlfd.txt |access-date= 2009-01-08 |edition= Version 1.5 |year= 1994 |publisher=X Consortium, Inc. |pages=13 |chapter=3.2 Font Properties |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130331010913/http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.5.0/doc/xlfd.txt |archive-date=2013-03-31}}</ref> A generic BDF file is in [[ASCII]] encoding. X Window properties are specified using [[ISO/IEC 8859-1|ISO 8859-1]] encoding, which is an extension of ASCII. These properties include:
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