Handling special characters

[Palanisamy, Giri]

Yes, I am using the binary from http://www.maptools.org/dl/mapserver-4.4.0-beta2-win32-php4.3.7.zip. I don't really know if that uses GD 2.0.28 or not.

I have also tried adding the special characters directly in to the dbf file (edited in excel) ie directly added "La Cigüeña", but my mapserver application displayed as "La Cige¤a".

DO you have any special characters in your mapserver applications? 

Any idea?

Thanks!.

Giri


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From: UMN MapServer Developers List [mailto:MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Yewondwossen Assefa
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 3:39 PM
To: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] Handling special characters

 From what I understood, Giri is using the
http://www.maptools.org/dl/mapserver-4.4.0-beta2-win32-php4.3.7.zip
which was build using GD 2.0.28.  Is that correct Giri ?

Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Palanisamy, Giri wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I used to think that it was freetype that was taking care of decoding
> HTML entities such as "ñ".  After a quick search, I just found
> out that since GD 2.0.26, the GD library takes care of decoding
> entities, and I see that "ñ" is handled in the source. So for
> sure rebuilding with the latest GD should solve your issue. I'm not sure
> how/why entities decoding was working before GD 2.0.26, but I thought
> that it used to work too.
>
> Daniel
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