As far as I know shapefile rendering depends on the SLD you use and the Font and so on that is defined. I remember a report a while ago about Arabic that claimed the characters were drawn correctly for certain fonts but not others.
Jesse On 5-Sep-06, at 8:30 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: > Usually it is the other way around, additional parameters that you > supply before you create the ShapeFileDataStore object ... aka this > usually would be done by ShapefileDataStoreFactory. But we have to > ask the question - does the shapefile format supported different > character encodings (it may not - lets ask Jesse). > > Normally if you have specific questions you can talk to the module > maintainer - in this case it is Jesse. > Jody >> Hi Jody, >> >> I use ShapefileDataStore. then should I do something >> with the ShapefileDataStore object? if so what can I >> do? I do not see any candidate methods having charset >> encoding parameter, etc. >> >> thanks & regards, >> >> Erdem Gunay >> >> --- Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I think it depends on your data source, ie >>> shapefile, postgis etc. I know postgis for the longest time had >>> an extra >>> connection parameter that could be used to control the character >>> encoding. >>> >>> Basically the text displayed as labels is data, it >>> is up to the data source to grab the data in the correct form (ie >>> move >>> it to nice unicode characters for java). We may have a bit of fun >>> ensuring the characters get drawn in the right orientation for >>> some of the >>> left-to-right languages, it will come down to Java2D unicode >>> support (which is pretty good). >>> >>> Jody >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am using StreamingRenderer as my renderer. How >>>> >>> can I >>> >>>> set the character encoding to a language specific >>>> value; for example, 8859-9 (for Turkish) so that >>>> >>> the >>> >>>> Turkish characters get rendered properly? >>>> >>>> thanks & regards, >>>> >>>> -- Erdem Gunay >>>> >>>> >>>> __________________________________________________ >>>> Do You Yahoo!? >>>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam >>>> >>> protection around >>>> http://mail.yahoo.com >>>> >>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> >>>> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support >>>> >>> web services, security? >>> >>>> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated >>>> >>> technology to make your job easier >>> >>>> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 >>>> >>> based on Apache Geronimo >>> >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? >> cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Geotools-gt2-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users >> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
