[Mapserver-users] Arabic label

[Daniel Penninck]

Steve,

first, thanks for your reply.

The fact is that that the problem has two aspect:
First get an arabic font.
And, second, set the correct charactère encoding.

Althought my application run under Linux, I did some 'fonts' test under 
Windows XP. I could see my 'ÔÇÑÚ ÇáÏáÊÇ' text as arabic in internet explorer 
and Netscape by changing the encoding (I.E character set) from
Western European (ISO) to Arabic (ISO).

So I would like to know which font those programs use when I do this change. 
I think there is no change since the default Arial font support 'arabic 
base' character set.
And if there is no character font change, I would like to know how to tell 
my mapserver cgi to use another character set. How do I do that on Linux?

Does the GD or the Freetype library have something to do whith that? Do I 
have to recompile those library and relink my mapserver binary?

Thanks for help.

>From: woodbri at swoodbridge.com
>Reply-To: woodbri at swoodbridge.com
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu,              "Daniel Penninck" 
><squale_666 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Arabic label
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:25:05 -0500
>
>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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