The key is to make sure you are using fribidi-0.19.2.tar.gz I do not use
fgs, so I'm not sure what they are using. I have downloaded the source
and compiled and in stalled it under /usr/local/. Make sure you do NOT
have the system package for fribidi installed as that is the old one
that does not support the joining.
Did you copy the font file you used for ms4w to linux to make sure you
are using the same file?
-Steve W
On 10/21/2010 11:04 AM, Ian Walberg wrote:
Steve,
Thanks for the reply.
We have a working setup on Window using ms4w and used the same map,
shape and fonts files on the Linux setup which is an fgs install but
this shows the characters broken.
Is anyone out using a working linux installation which correctly joins
Arabic characters?
Thanks
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
Woodbridge
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:20 AM
To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering
Ian,
You have to get a truetype font that supports arabic and has all the
chaining glyphs in it. Microsoft has an arial font that is about 24MB
file size that is pretty good, not that I'm suggesting you violate their
EUA. There are also some commercial fonts that you can buy that do the
job pretty well.
You might ask for font suggestions on fribidi software list.
As far as installation, all you need to do for maperver is copy the font
to a directory that your webserver can access, can create fontlist.txt
that points to that font. Then you can referrence the file via the alias
you gave it in the fontlist.txt file. See the documentation for how to
do this.
-Steve W
On 10/20/2010 10:08 AM, Ian Walberg wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with Arabic text on a Linux
installation?
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ian
Walberg
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:10 PM
To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering
On Linux we are Arabic words rendered as individual characters and on
Windows the characters are joined correctly.
Same map file, shapefile and font on each.
We have tried both the mapserver and libs we have built from source
and
the fgs binary install on Linux and both render individual characters.
Can anyone point me to what lib or config I need to change?
Thanks
Ian
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