On 1/23/2013 2:20 PM, Peter Mallen wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am having issues rendering certain Hindi characters. I am using UTF-8
encoding.
When attempting to display the following Hindi character in MapServer: र्ट
It is rendered in MapServer as the following two characters: र् ट
I believe these characters form what is called a conjunct consonant, of
which there appear to be thousands of and most of them do not render
using MapServer.
Also, It appears that MapServer is having an issue displaying these
conjunct consonants and wants to display these characters separately
rather than to form them as one combined character.
Here is a link describing more about the Devanagari alphabet:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm
Can anyone please help with this?
Thank You,
Peter Mallen
Hi Peter,
I can not speak to this specific problem but I can give you and
overview. Mapserver uses fribidi library for rending this data and I
know from working with Arabic that a lot depends on the font you are
using, in additional to the capabilities and version of fribidi library.
This kind of question is probably best asked on the fribidi list as they
will know more about what is supported or not for any given language and
they might be able to point you to a better font.
http://www.fribidi.org/
You should probably make sure you are using a recent version of the
library like 0.19.2 or better and be aware the 0.19.5 was released in
Dec 2012.
Hope this helps,
-Steve W
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