[Mapserver-users] Arabic label

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Daniel,

I found the link you need to get the titus unicode true type font. 
They have an arabic font, look under the unicode link on the right to 
get started:

http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm

-Steve W.

On 23 Jan 2003 at 18:25, woodbri at swoodbridge.com wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> You will need to get a true type font that will render the arabic
> characters correctly before it will look correct. I found one
> searching the web, but I am in the process of moving everything to a
> new system and I can't find anything at the moment. But try a google
> search for something like "arabic true type font download" should get
> you pretty close.
> 
> -Steve W.
> 
> On 23 Jan 2003 at 22:42, Daniel Penninck wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to know how to display arabic label in my mapserver
> > test application.
> > 
> > I have streets's names encoded in arabic: character code is
> > ISO-8859-6. Example of label value in the db: ÔÇÑÚ ÇáÏáÊÇ and I am
> > sure this value can be display in arabic.
> > 
> > I want to see them as arabic label in the map, but it doesn't work:
> > I was no-sens label instead!
> > 
> > Can Someone help?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Daniel.
> > 
> > PS:
> > value in db:
> > ÔÇÑÚ ÇáÏáÊÇ
> > 
> > arabic label:
> > ﺎﺘﻓﺪﻓﺍ 
> > ﻍﺭﺎﺷ
> > 
> > 
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