* On 21-Aug-2008 at 11:19AM PDT, Tom Hughes said: > > http://westbank.maps.jsintl.org/?lat=31.70841&lon=35.20192&zoom=17&layers=B > > > > Street names in Arabic rendered along a path end up being drawn without > > ligatures, which to a native speakers looks like an A C R O N Y M. > > > > I'm not sure if mapnik on OSM.org is doing the same (can't find any streets > > as tortuously bendy as the ones in Bethlehem), or if there's a particular > > issue with the fonts on our server. > > Is it really being drawn without the ligatures? or do they just not > join up because of the bends? The first should not be happening as > shaping was added to mapnik ages ago now. The second is probably very > hard to solve.
It's the former. Since we set up this server from scratch, I'm guessing its some misconfiguration or missing font on our end; I think we were just wondering if there was some magic pixie dust we forgot to sprinkle. SDE _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
