[mapserver-users] Arabic-Farsi-Hebrew support?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Saka Royban wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> I'm new to Mapserver. I want to know if Mapserver is able to handle 
> Arabic-Farsi(Persian) and Hebrew correctly (using gettext). In these 
> languages letter join to each other to form a word not like others which 
> letters are separate with no problem. also they are written right to 
> left not left to right. This is an important point for labeling. 
> Searching nabble.com, i found a post some months ago discussing around 
> this problem and associated ticket. That would be my pleasure to know 
> the result if any knows.
> Thanks in advance

Well, I'm not sure about "gettext" part of your question, but with 
Release 5.2 you can now build with fribidi2 support and render labels 
with shaping in Arabic-Farsi(Persian) and Hebrew correctly provided you 
have a truetype font that supports all the unicode shape characters.

-Steve W