Mapserver character encoding howto

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

 From what I understand , there is an ENCODING parameter that may be
needed in the lablel object. Bug 890 in mapserver was used to discuss
the implemenatation (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=890).

Later,

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just downloaded mapserver 4.4.1 and I see there are reference to
> support for i18n character encoding. Is there anything special that I
> need to do to make use of it?
>
> The problem I am having is that accented in eastern European countries
> do not seem to be displaying correctly, like I am getting the words by
> they have capital A-accent, capital U-accent and capital O-accent, etc
> within the words where I would at least expect a lower cases char.
>
> Like the following only the capital vowels are accented:
>
> JOzsef, LAsziO, StefAna, MAria, MUzeum KOr Ut
>
> This might be a font problem, but I have tried a UTF-8 font and a
> Unicode font in ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> -Steve W.
>


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