Hi Daniel,
I looked at the patch briefly.
It doesn't seem to be doing character joining for works in Arabic.
I'm thinking that if we had the algorithm to do the joining then we
could add that and maybe a Tag or metadata item that enabled the joining
if needed. The joining algorithm, might be smart enough to only join
Arabic letters and leave the rest alone.
If you are interested, I think I can get my hands on a perl script that
does the joining.
-Steve W
Daniel Morissette wrote:
Copying what I wrote earlier this morning on the ka-map list (sorry for
those on both lists):
FYI there is an open MapServer ticket about this:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/956
The ticket even includes a patch that you may want to try. I'll try to
address this one for MapServer 5.2.
Daniel
R Isfahani wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to render some Farsi (Persian) labels on my map. As you may
know, Farsi words are written from right to left, just like Hebrew.
I've changed the label's encoding to 'Windows-1256' in my mapfile and
I'm using TrueType fonts. Farsi letters have appeared. But the problem
is that letters are in revers order and letters are not joining properly.
Of course reversing the letters' order in database will cause the
right order of them when rendering the map. But I wanna know if
there's any other way to show farsi labels in right order with no
joining problems.
[Actually, I'm using Ka-Map on the top of Mapserver to render my maps
on the web. Ka-Mappers told me that my problem is a kind of Mapserver
problems]
Any new ideas are welcomed.
Thanx.
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