arabic labels in mapserver

[Eduin Carrillo]

 --- Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM> escribió:
> parwaiz,
>
> I cc this to the mapserver list as there are more people there and they
> might have an answer for you.
>
> I never followed up on that issue as the contract never came through.
> But what I do know is that you need at least these elements:
>
> 1) a truetype font that supports arabic
> 2) mapserver to support right to left rendering of text strings
>     or you might be able to reverse the character in the string
>     to fake the rendering direction.
>
> Does anyone have more information on this?
>
> -Steve W.
>

I think, you can find useful this list of charsets supported by libiconv-1.9.1
(MapServer 4.4)
Use "ENCODING charset" in your mapfile.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gix/mstools/GixMSTools.charsets?view=markup




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Eduin Yesid Carrillo Vega
yecarrillo at yahoo.com
COLOMBIA

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