Umberto Nicoletti wrote: >> The point of my post is that PDF output seems broken - >> national characters in labels are garbled, labels are >> not buffered, vector lines disjoined. Is this a bug, a >> feature or my error?
> Probably a bug ;-). There has been considerable effort in support > national characters in mapserver lately, although it might not have > been ported back to the pdf output writer. > > Please check that the environment (LANG, LC_*) used by shp2img > reflects *exactly* the encoding used to create the dbf/shp files. > I.e.: if you created the shp files in UTF-8 and then have the > ISO8859-? encoding, when rendering with shp2img it is quite possible > that national chars become mangled. The DBF comming with SHP is UTF-8, and all my locale is pl_PL.UTF-8. Maciek
