On 2/26/2012 10:39 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
Hello lists,
We cannot get all our Arabic text labels to display correctly, it
appears that the incorrectly rendered text is not being drawn right to
left. Some work and others do not.
Our assumption is that there are some non displaying codes we are
missing but we do not know enough yet to work out if this is the case.
The data is in an sqlite database using an OGR connection.
Any ideas or experience that you can share would be fabulous.
Ian,
You need the follow pieces to get this to work:
1. make sure you have built mapserver with fribidi-0.19.2
2. you need a ttf that supports the character set you are using
- I always make sure my data is in UTF8
- and I have a unicode arial.ttf font from Windows
3. make sure your LABEL block has ENCODING "UTF8" in it
- assuming your data is in UTF8
On Linux you can do:
$ dbfdump myshapefile.dbf > aaa
$ file aaa
and it will tell you what the encoding is.
Issues that I have run into are:
1. data with mixed utf8 and other encodings like Window-1256 or ISO-8859-6
2. In UTF8 data there are a lot of glyphs that are connecting characters
or non printing characters and many fonts do not have glyphs defined for
these characters which typically causes a square box to be displayed.
-Steve W
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