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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>Hello Everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>I am having issues rendering certain Hindi characters. I am using UTF-8 encoding.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>When attempting to display the following Hindi character in MapServer: </span><span lang=HI style='font-family:"Mangal","serif";color:black'>र्ट</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>It is rendered in MapServer as the following two characters: </span><span lang=HI style='font-family:"Mangal","serif";color:black'>र् ट</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>I believe these characters form what is called a conjunct consonant, of which there appear to be thousands of and most of them do not render using MapServer.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>Also, It appears that MapServer is having an issue displaying these conjunct consonants and wants to display these characters separately rather than to form them as one combined character. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>Here is a link describing more about the Devanagari alphabet: <a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm">http://www.omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>Can anyone please help with this? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>Thank You,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>Peter Mallen</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>