[mapserver-users] International Fonts - OSM Data

[Havard Tveite]

Thanks for reporting, Thomas.
I have added a documentation issue for RFC98.

Håvard

On 10. aug. 2017 09:28, thomas bonfort wrote:
> Dave,
> The Noto font aims at resolving this issue: https://www.google.com/get/noto/
> 
> Aside from that mapserver supports language specific fonts. This needs 
> documenting aside from what can be found in the RFC 
> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-98.html (which has a typo, 
> use s/LABEL/FONT/)
> 
> FONT "arialuni,en:arial,ja:cjk,ar:arabic"
> 
> will use a specific font for a given language code. Collecting all the 
> fonts and mapping them to all the language codes for a worldwide osm db 
> will be a tiresome job...
> 
> cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:04 PM Dave Barter <dave at phased.co.uk 
> <mailto:dave at phased.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     I’ve done a planet load of OSM and when I view countries in the
>     database using PGADMIN I can see them correctly encoded as per the
>     image below:-
> 
>     http://imgbox.com/Z5SJ911X
> 
>     My Mapfile looks like this:-
> 
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION 'country'
>       LABEL
>        FONT sc
>        TYPE TRUETYPE
>        ENCODING "utf-8"
>        SIZE 8
>        COLOR 100 100 100
>        OUTLINECOLOR -1 -1 -1
>        OUTLINEWIDTH 2
>        WRAP ' '
>        MAXLENGTH 8
>        ALIGN CENTER
>        BUFFER 4
>        PARTIALS FALSE
>        POSITION cc
>       END
>     END
> 
>     Which renders some of the characters but not Ethiopia as shown by
>     this image
> 
>     http://imgbox.com/vnGmn7jT
> 
>     My database server is using UTF8 as the encoding. So Is the problem
>     with my font?
> 
>     sc maps to DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf
> 
>     I am guessing some characters are missing or I need to use another font?
> 
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