Have you tried the MSGothic or PGothic type fonts? Dave
________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darren Karasiuk [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:20 AM To: 'MapGuide Users Mail List' Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] extended characters with .NET Well, I'm still having trouble with getting characters above 127 to work with .NET. I've tried using different fonts but the images don't appear on the map. (-.-;) I've searched for symbol resources but couldn't find any. Is there an easy way of making a symbol without having MapGuide Enterprise? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aldata Sent: March 11, 2009 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mapguide-users] extended characters with .NET Hi everyone, I have a problem with using extended characters with fonts. When I create a layer with Autodesk Map Guide Studio and use a Wingdings arrow as the point style, there is no problem. I load the exported xml layer.definition in my .NET application, change the filter, save the resource, and add the layer to the the map. At this point, the data loads and plots successfully, but the point style that is expected to be an arrow, is now a picture of hand holding a pen, the equivalent of a the question mark (?) in a normal text font. I figure it's .NET converting the UTF-8 character into ASCII or UNICODE that is trouble. The Webdings font works fine up until character decimal 127. After that, the hand holding a pen again. I tried to use the notation & #xE9; (space added so webpage doesn't interpret) but again, no go. I also tried the decimal version with no success. How can I load, edit, and output layer.definition containing extended characters using .NET? What I have: Dim layerXMLDoc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument() Dim XMLDocPath As String = Server.MapPath("layerdef\trucks.LayerDefinition.xml") Dim sr As New IO.StreamReader(XMLDocPath, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8) layerXMLDoc.LoadXml(sr.ReadToEnd()) sr.Close() ... Dim newLayer As MgLayer = add_layer_definition_to_map(layerXMLDoc.OuterXml, "layer-eq" + EquipmentList.SelectedValue.ToString, EquipmentList.SelectedItem.ToString) .... ----- This function was more or less copied from the api documents which receives the layerXMLDoc as the first parameter. Is the problem with out it's passed? Public Function add_layer_definition_to_map(ByVal layerDefinition As String, ByVal layerName As String, ByVal layerLegendLabel As String) As MgLayer 'Validate the XML Dim XmlDoc As New XmlDocument XmlDoc.LoadXml(layerDefinition) 'don't understand validation yet Dim encoding As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding() ' Is the problem here??? Dim byteSource As New MgByteSource(encoding.GetBytes(layerDefinition.ToString), layerDefinition.Length) byteSource.SetMimeType(MgMimeType.Xml) .... ------- Thanks for your time! -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/extended-characters-with-.NET-tp2464283p2464283.html Sent from the MapGuide Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users_______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
