Handling special characters

Palanisamy, Giri palanisamyg at ORNL.GOV
Fri Nov 19 14:34:46 EST 2004


HI,

I have installed the latest Mapserver version 4.4 and tired the special character. But it is still not able to display the special character. Any idea?


Giri

-----Original Message-----
From: bartvde at xs4all.nl [mailto:bartvde at xs4all.nl] 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 9:02 AM
To: Palanisamy, Giri
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] Handling special characters

Hi,

you can download a 4.4. beta 2 Windows binary from:

http://www.maptools.org/dl/mapserver-4.4.0-beta2-win32-php4.3.7.zip

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi Bart,
>
> Thanks for the information. Does mapserver version 4.4 supports
> internalization? I couldn't see a windows binary version 4.4 in the
> mapserver download page. Do you have a windows binary? I am using Windows
> XP and IIS to run the mapserver.
>
> Thanks again for the help.
>
> Giri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bartvde at xs4all.nl [mailto:bartvde at xs4all.nl]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:41 AM
> To: Palanisamy, Giri
> Cc: mapserver-dev at lists.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] Handling special characters
>
> Hi,
>
> I would suggest upgrading to Mapserver 4.4.
>
> See:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=858
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>>
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a mapserver that displays place names in different countries, and
>> I
>> need to show the special Latin characters, for example La Cigüeña,
>> Argentina. The place names are coming from a dbf file. I have tried
>> adding
>> Unicode and Latin character sets such as "ñ" in the dbf entry,
>> and
>> my mapserver output didn't display the special characters, in fact the
>> mapserver out was just "La Cigue"ña".   Is there a way to display
>> the special characters in a mapserver?
>>
>>
>>
>> I am running the mapserver version 4.0 in  Windows XP, and using JBox to
>> handle the mapserver requests.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance!.
>>
>>
>>
>> Giri
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>



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