The fonts that show up as boxes is still not as bad. JOSM saves/uploads the OSM file with proper unicode characters even when its rendering box letters. Try opening the OSM file in an gedit/wordpad and it should appear proper assuming ur sys has fonts installed.
Below is the suggestion I got from Gora on a similar query. It is almost certainly an issue with the locales supported > by Java. You will probably find that Hindi works. Which java > are you using (try "java -version")? > > For Sun java, a list of supported locales might be found at > one of these places (for a different Sun Java version, try > changing the version number in the URL): > 1.4.2: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/locale.doc.html > 1.5.0: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/intl/locale.doc.html > java6: > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/locale.doc.html > > Don't know Java well enough to tell if other locales can be > added. Your other alternative is to use Potlatch. > > Regards, > Gora > 2009/10/20 Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I have indic fonts installed in my machine, but when I try to type them in > josm, I just get little boxen - how does one install indic (or any font) > font > support in josm? > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Project Officer > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >
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