[mapserver-dev] Arabic encoding in Mapscript

[Stephen Woodbridge]

I have gotten this to work using a Microsoft Arial font that is about 
24MB in size. It is a utf8 font. I use Arabic data that is in utf8 and 
use the ENCODING UTF8 in the label. You HAVE to use fribidi-0.19.x when 
compiling mapserver.

The MS Arial font is not perfect it has some missing joining gliphs but 
is for the most part pretty good. I have had some clients license other 
third party fonts that are better but I don't keep track of them and 
some clients have gotten a font editor and added the glyphs they needed.

-Steve W


On 11/27/2010 4:26 AM, mapsab wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     I am using c#mapscript(utilmap)(MapServer version 4.8.4 ) with asp.net in
> our web application(www.welcometooman.com) .With English data it is working
> fine.But when I try to show some labels in arabic it shows some Arabic
> characters,but not in a joined way.We have created the layer using mapinfo
> with one filed  contains arabic .All the layers are in .Tab format.The layer
> code  is as follows
>
>
> LAYER
>
>     NAME "Museums_c"
>
>
>     TYPE POINT
>     CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>
>     CONNECTION "Museums_c.TAB"
>
>
>     STATUS ON
>     # This enables use of colors and styles from the source file.
>     #STYLEITEM "AUTO"
>     # Define an empty class that will be filled at runtime from the color and
>     # styles read on each shape in the source file.
>     #CLASSITEM "TYPE"
>
>     LABELITEM "Ar_Name"
>
>     CLASS
>        	SIZE 10
>        	STYLE
>        		COLOR 255 0 0
>       		OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>       		SYMBOL 'museum'
> 	END #STYLE
> 	#TEXT ([LABEL], [LABEL])
> 	LABEL
> 	    ANGLE AUTO
> 		COLOR 100 100 255
> 		FONT arial
> 		TYPE TRUETYPE
> 		SIZE 10
> 		POSITION LC
> 		WRAP " "
> 		ENCODING "Windows-1256"
> 		
> 	END#LABEL
>    END# CLASS
>    END#LAYER
>
> I have tried UTF-8,and font like Tahoma,but same reuslt.Can anyone suggests
> any solution please.
>