[mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Ian,

The symptoms you are describing are similar to what I have run into with 
rendering Arabic. What we found was that the TTF we were using was 
missing some glyphs related to connecting characters in the script. My 
client Identified these and we were able to locate a different font that 
had better glyph coverage for Arabic. I don't know anything about Hindi 
and Thai so looking at you results will not help, but it does sounds 
like the basic rendering is working.

Assuming the above is true, then you would need to identify the 
characters that are wrong or missing by there character codes and then 
find a font that has support for those codes. If you think fribidi is 
not handling things correctly, I have found their mailing list to be 
very helpful and they suggested changes to how we used their code in 
mapserver in the past to filter out some zero width space utf8 codes 
that were causing problems for Arabic.

-Steve W

On 6/18/2012 11:51 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> We can provide some examples tomorrow but we are seeing some characters
> not matching what is displayed in other applications.
>
> Overall the behaviour appears to match this description
> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/2591
>
> Regards
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Woodbridge
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 8:47 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering
>
> On 6/18/2012 6:46 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> That is encouraging, however our concern is that the character
>> rendering is not supported.
>
> Ian,
>
> What do you mean by this statement?
>
> What have you tried? ie: what does you mapfile look like, what font are
> you using, etc?
>
> For this to work you need the following:
>
> 1. a mapserver build with fribidi-0.19.2 2. a truetype fone file that
> supports all the glyphs that you need 3. your mapfile and data
> configured correctly such that the text in the data is appropriately for
> the ENCODING and that that then matches the ttf.
>
> -Steve W
>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
>> McKenna
>> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 3:06 PM
>> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering
>>
>> On 12-06-18 6:45 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are seeing some issues displaying Hindi and Thai text, from a
>>> quick
>>
>>> search it looks like this may be related to there not being support
>>> for Indic scripts.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone confirm if these are supported? And if they are not are
>>> there any workarounds?
>>>
>>
>> Hello Ian,
>>
>> I can for sure confirm that Thai text is supported, as it was one of
>> the languages tested during the initial implementation of the source
>> code (see the notes at the bottom of
>> http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/labelencoding.html).
>>
>> There's always a chance that things have changed with MapServer 6.0,
>> but if you provide a small data sample, font, and simple one layer
>> mapfile I am sure others on this email list can test and provide
> feedback for you.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff McKenna
>> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
>>
>>
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