[Mapserver-users] Problems with umlauts in labels

[Daniel Morissette]

Toomas Aas wrote:
> 
> OK, so I got it working now, but I'm sure it will bite me again next time I
> upgrade PHP. I would like to find a more permanent fix. If someone is using 
> PHP/Mapscript 3.6.6 and PHP 4.3.x with bundled GD library, are you able to 
> display umlauts in labels? Just trying to make sure if the problem is in my 
> server or somewhere else.
> 

The problem is not just that umlauts may not display, you may also 
experience other types of odd behaviors or instability.  If you build 
php_mapscript using the system GD and build PHP using the bundled GD, 
then at runtime when you load php_mapscript.so inside PHP you end up 
pulling two copies of slightly different versions of GD into the same 
process, and this is very bad.

You really have to make sure that both MapScript and PHP are built using 
the exact same version of GD.  Perhaps you could try compiling 
Mapserver/mapscript using PHP's bundled GD library, we never tried it, 
but that would be another way to ensure that both mapscript and PHP use 
the same version of GD.

Daniel
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