[mapserver-dev] Re: [mapserver-users] Rendering of Static Text is different using gd or AGG ?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Thanks Paul and Thomas,

Thomas just closed it as dup of #2403.

I should have tried it on trunk, but didn't have a build conveniently 
available.

-Steve W

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> It's a bug, and the regression suite even caught it :)
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2600
> 
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> This is a good work around, but I think we need to ask the questions:
>>
>>  What is the expected behavior?
>>  Is this a bug, should it be a bug?
>>  Should this behavior be documented?
>>  Should this be bugged for 5.2 freeze?
>>
>> Clearly some code is translating the &copy; for the GD renderer.
>>
>> Adding cc: mapserver-dev, let me know If you want to to generate a bug based
>> on this and assign it to 5.2
>>
>> -Steve W
>>
>> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> What about using your operating system's character set?  For example on
>>> windows pressing ALT-0169 gives the copyright sign, and on MAC pressing
>>> OPTION-G.  So your mapfile snippet is:    TEXT "(c)"
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6-May-08, at 9:32 AM, Schönhammer, Herbert wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> Using* gd* the declaration "&copy;"renders the "copyright"-Sign:
>>>>
>>>> LAYER
>>>>  NAME "copyright"
>>>>  REQUIRES ..
>>>>  ...
>>>>
>>>>  FEATURE
>>>>     POINTS
>>>>      3 10
>>>>     END
>>>>   END
>>>>    ...
>>>>
>>>>  CLASS
>>>> *     TEXT "&copy; xxx" *
>>>>    LABEL
>>>>      TYPE TRUETYPE
>>>>      FONT 'arial'
>>>>      SIZE 9
>>>>      POSITION cr
>>>>      COLOR 0 0 0
>>>>      OUTLINECOLOR  255 255 254
>>>>    END
>>>>  END
>>>>  END # LAYER
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But using agg, the text ""&copy; xxx" is rendered in the map.
>>>>
>>>> Please lokk at the examples !
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know,
>>>> how to render the html-code like done in gd ?
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know another way to render signs like "copyright"  with gd ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much
>>>>
>>>> greetings
>>>> Herbert
>>>>
>>>> <<gd-rendering.gif>> <<agg-rendering.gif>>
>>>>
>>>>
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