Jackey,
Try locating a different font. if the text is being rendered as glyphs
and they look correct, but is missing the joining information, it is
likely that the font you are using does not include the joining glyphs.
If you are using a windows machine, try getting mapserver via the
fonts.txt file to point to the arial.ttf in the fonts folder. And change
you FONT "..." to select the windows arial font. This assumes that you
can display arabic text correctly using the arial font from a windows
application like excel.
-Steve W.
Jackey Cheung wrote:
Greetings!
We've build the MapServer 5.2 on a Linux server, with fribidi2 0.19.1, to
try show Arabic labels. But the words has been broken down to characters in
the generated images (line.png). Then we've tried on a MS4W 2.3.0 server,
but the images (ms4w.png) are even worse.
We are using PostGIS, and the database is using UTF8 (pgpr.png), while all
Arabic data can be shown correctly (pg.png) on my English Windows XP, and
we've tried some more machines, or on IE, to make sure that Arabic text in
database are really UTF8.
Here's the images: http://www3.mapasia.com/jackout/ara.png
The part of the map file is as follow, where the "arbic-trans" is a Arabic
TrueType font named "Arabic Transparent":
LABEL
ANGLE FOLLOW
PRIORITY [priority]
ENCODING "UTF-8"
COLOR 0 0 0
OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
TYPE TRUETYPE
FONT "arbic-trans"
SIZE 7
POSITION AUTO
PARTIALS FALSE
MINDISTANCE 500
BUFFER 1
MINFEATURESIZE 50
END
Could anyone please help.
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