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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anybody have any idea as to how to use some
Arabic font in mapserver. i did the usual stuff, like defining an alias for the
font in a "fonts.list" file and using the alias name as the font for a
particular layer to write some text on labels.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but i get some garbage which i am unable to
decipher. one thing which surprised me was the fact that no error code was
returned throughout the code when i debugged it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>however the desirable output was not
produced.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>has anyone dealt with any arabic TTF before with
mapserver? do we need to do something special for supporting arabic
TTFs?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i was able to display some kanji text. as far as i
know, arabic must be supported by Unicode TTF.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>any ideas?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i am using version 3.4 of mapserver along with the
associated default libraries of GD, FreeType etc provided in the download. do i
need to get the latest versions of the FreeType library and mapserver, to be
able to support arabic fonts?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks in advance.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-ashish</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>