[mapserver-users] Failed to show Arabic labels with MapServer 5.2

[Dane Springmeyer]

Jackey,

I don't have experience rendering arabic fonts, but I wonder if the  
ticket for supporting Indic Fonts might provide some clues for your  
further testing:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2591

Dane

On Nov 17, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Jackey Cheung wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Thanks for the advise, but we've tried the Arial font already in the  
> first test, it's just the same. We thought it was the fribidi2's  
> problem since 0.19.1 doesn't have their configure script changed,  
> and tried the 0.10.9, but it's all the same, every word is broken.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com 
> > wrote:
> Jackey,
>
> Try locating a different font. if the text is being rendered as  
> glyphs and they look correct, but is missing the joining  
> information, it is likely that the font you are using does not  
> include the joining glyphs.
>
> If you are using a windows machine, try getting mapserver via the  
> fonts.txt file to point to the arial.ttf in the fonts folder. And  
> change you FONT "..." to select the windows arial font. This assumes  
> that you can display arabic text correctly using the arial font from  
> a windows application like excel.
>
> -Steve W.
>
> Jackey Cheung wrote:
> Greetings!
>
>
> We've build the MapServer 5.2 on a Linux server, with fribidi2  
> 0.19.1, to
> try show Arabic labels. But the words has been broken down to  
> characters in
> the generated images (line.png). Then we've tried on a MS4W 2.3.0  
> server,
> but the images (ms4w.png) are even worse.
>
> We are using PostGIS, and the database is using UTF8 (pgpr.png),  
> while all
> Arabic data can be shown correctly (pg.png) on my English Windows  
> XP, and
>
> we've tried some more machines, or on IE, to make sure that Arabic  
> text in
> database are really UTF8.
>
> Here's the images: http://www3.mapasia.com/jackout/ara.png
>
>
> The part of the map file is as follow, where the "arbic-trans" is a  
> Arabic
> TrueType font named "Arabic Transparent":
> LABEL
> ANGLE FOLLOW
> PRIORITY [priority]
> ENCODING "UTF-8"
> COLOR 0 0 0
> OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
> TYPE TRUETYPE
> FONT "arbic-trans"
> SIZE 7
> POSITION AUTO
> PARTIALS FALSE
> MINDISTANCE 500
> BUFFER 1
> MINFEATURESIZE 50
> END
>
> Could anyone please help.
>
>
>
>
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