Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-11 Thread Knut Behrends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is my final post on this subject, just to end this topic on a positive note. Although the font management tools on solaris 10 release 08/07 always dump core after a few keystrokes and button clicks, Solaris' truetype fonts themselves are okay. On

Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-08 Thread Knut Behrends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thomas bonfort schrieb: > Now onto the points you're raising: > - as Tamas said, there's no support for accented characters *with the > embedded raster raster fonts*. Truetype fonts don't have this problem > provided you use/specify the correct encodi

Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-08 Thread thomas bonfort
> On Solaris truetype fonts aren't included by default but have to be > installed manually as well. > And I didn't find much end user documentation on the internet dealing > with installing and configuring mapserver with agg support at all. (I > doubt that many users have got it to work or let alon

Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-08 Thread Knut Behrends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Coming out of nowhere and bitching on a project because you haven't > understood the extent of a closed bug seems to me a very impolite way > of introducing yourself and getting people to want to help you imho. Sorry, I didn't want to sound impolite

Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-05 Thread thomas bonfort
> This means that AGG has no ability whatsoever to deal with non-standard > non-ASCII characters such as ä,ü, §, ß ? Is it really impossible to > render vowels with accents, Umlauts, Sharp-S and so on with AGG? Then > why has AGG been included into the mapserver distribution in the first > place? [

Re: [mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-05 Thread Tamas Szekeres
2008/12/5 Knut Behrends <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I've noticed that rendering raster fonts when the character code falls > >outside of the 23-127 domain may cause crash in mapserver. The > >following patch provides a fix for the problem, however I consider this > >as rather a bug in the AGG librari

[mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

2008-12-05 Thread Knut Behrends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I need some clarification: Do I understand this ticket correctly: >http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2739 >Rendering raster fonts with AGG may cause crash in mapserver >I've noticed that rendering raster fonts when the character code f