[Mapserver-users] Arabic label

[Daniel Penninck]

Steve,

As I fear, this didn't solve the problem. I still have the same 'garbage' 
text instead of correct arabic text.
Could you suggest me another solution?

Thanks.


>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 20:47:36 -0500
>
>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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