[Mapserver-users] Mapserver extension for Shift_JIS/Big-5 fonts

[Steve Lime]

There is a bug already in place. I've not done anything with it because
I think it's not a trivial
change, that and there always seem to be higher priorities. The
choosing your encoding is only
one of the benefits of that new function, for example you can change
linespacing with it, and 
I'm sure there are other (undocumented) uses. Encoding should probably
be a label specific
parameter.

Steve

>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca> 2/13/2004 9:16:17 AM
>>>
phli wrote:
> Dear Mapserver Developer,
> 
> We posted a suggestion a while ago for extending Mapserver for 
> showing "Shift_JIS" (japanese) and "Big-5" (traditional chinese)
fonts with
> the new GD function:gdImageStringFTEx, instead of gdImageStringFT.
> 
> This is to check whether this extension has been made available or
not.
> Thank you.
> 

I don't think anything has been done on that front, and I think your 
best bet would be to file a bug in the MapServer bugzilla and attach a

small mapfile + dataset and some fonts to test this.

If/when we add this, we'll also have to define a mechanism to specify 
the character map to use.  Should this be a mapfile-level parameter, or

a layer-level parameter, or a combination of both?

Daniel
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