On May 3, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Alain Fontaine wrote:
We are trying to migrate from traditional on an almost overloaded,
aging G4 towards server on an Intel Mac Mini. We would, of course,
like it to be painless. It is not entirely. A few observations....
The first problem is the handling of 'international' characters:
while it is OK on traditional, it is completely broken on the
server. Any name on a map using 'international' characters will be
mangled when displayed on a Web page. Things are even worse if a
map name uses 'international' characters: it is mangled when
displayed on a Web page, AND also when using console/remote. We
hope that this known bug (or family of bugs...) will really be
fixed in 4.5 (ref. William W. Fisher 2006-01-30).
International character support (i18n) is fixed in 4.5.
Then, we tried to migrate to contents of the graph data files to
maintain access to the old values. But when a file named, for
example, 'L12-BytR' is copied from traditional, server ignores it
and builds a new 'L12-RtyB' file in the same folder. I wonder if
this is intentional or a result of the difference in endianess
between the G4 PPC and the Intel CPU.
The OSX installer is designed to fix up the endian issue for you.
Before installing the server version of InterMapper, be sure to copy
your InterMapper Settings folder to "/Library/Application Support/
InterMapper Settings"
InterMapper uses native byte order for both the chart data and the
chart names. When we added support for the Intel processor on Mac's
in 4.4.x, we didn't want to change any file formats internally.
Instead, the InterMapper installer on Mac's automagically converts
the endian-specific chart files as needed. For this to work, the
InterMapper Settings folder has to be in its canonical location when
you run the installer.
While the maps displayed by console/remote are reasonable, the
rendering of the characters by the Web server is ugly. It seems
worse that what an old typewriter (remember those ?) was producing
after many years of service.
This doesn't sound right. What is the content of your "InterMapper
Settings/Fonts" directory? The Fonts directory is another artifact
that the InterMapper installer creates for you. If the Fonts
directory is missing or empty, you will see the default, ugly font
produced by the graphics library.
Regards,
Bill Fisher
Dartware, LLC
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