We've build the MapServer 5.2 on a Linux server, with fribidi2 0.19.1, to try show Arabic labels. But the words are not joined. Then we've tried on an MS4W 2.3.0 server, it's worse.<br>
We are using PostGIS, and the database is using UTF8 (pgpr.png), while all Arabic data can be shown correctly 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.<br>
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Here's the images: <a href="http://www3.mapasia.com/jackout/ara.png" target="_blank">http://www3.mapasia.com/jackout/ara.png</a><br>
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The part of the map file is as follow, where the "arbic-trans" is a Arabic<br>
TrueType font named "Arabic Transparent":<br>
LABEL<br>
ANGLE FOLLOW<br>
PRIORITY [priority]<br>
ENCODING "UTF-8"<br>
COLOR 0 0 0<br>
OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255<br>
TYPE TRUETYPE<br>
FONT "arbic-trans"<br>
SIZE 7<br>
POSITION AUTO<br>
PARTIALS FALSE<br>
MINDISTANCE 500<br>
BUFFER 1<br>
MINFEATURESIZE 50<br>
END<br>
<br>Any clue?<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woodbri@swoodbridge.com">woodbri@swoodbridge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Saka,<br>
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There are a lot of pieces that you have to get working together to get this to work:<br>
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1) mapserver 5.2 MUST be built with fribidi2 support. I beleieve this is also designated as version fribidi-0.19.1<br>
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2) A typetype font file that contains the shape gliphs that you might need along with the characters that you need to display.<br>
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3) And I'm sure this works with UTF-8, but unsure about other encodings.<br>
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4) your data converted to UTF-8 if it is in some other encoding<br>
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5) and finally you mapfile label definition which specifies an encoding of utf-8.<br>
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You might get other variations of this to work, I would be interested in hearing your reports of you can get others to work. I have sucessfully gotten the above to work.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
-Stephen Woodbridge<br>
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Saka Royban wrote:<br>
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Hi all.<br>
I've asked this problem in MS4W mailing list but no success. it sounds it originally relates to mapserver<br>
According to what History.txt for MS4W2.2.8 says, problem for arabic and hebrew languages has been solved by using UTF8. But i couldn't get a good result.<br>
In fact, UTF8 doesn't show letters correctly (just some symbols). i have tried lots of fonts but the same result.<br>
in current version, the problem of joining letters have been solved because i can get result using 'ISO8859-6' encoding which is for arabic but now this encoding changes some of letters with each other.<br>
In last version, 'Windows-1256' encoding (for arabic) worked well for showing letters just they were separate not joint. but in cuurent versions this encoding just shows some symbols.<br>
I'm confused. maybe i should setup sth which i don't do or i don't know sth else.<br>
that would be my appreciate to help me because it is really a need. Maps without labels have less usage.<br>
Thanks in advance<br>
(See attachments)<br>
My Mapfile: LABEL<br>
TYPE TrueType<br>
FONT timesnewromans<br>
ENCODING 'windows-1256'<br>
SIZE 12<br>
END<br>
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