[Mapserver-users] (no subject)

[Mario Basa]

There is a patch to Mapserver that was created to handle 2-Byte
character sets. It adds an "ENCODING" tag within the LABEL class, so
that different character sets can be used at the same time (i.e. SJIS
for Legend, EUC-JP from a PostGIS Layer, etc.) which makes it flexible
when working with data sets with numerous encodings.

More info can be found here:

http://www.grass-japan.org/FOSS4G/MAPSERVER/mapserver-inten.html

and somebody was able to use it with Chinese fonts as described here:

http://www.grass-japan.org/FOSS4G/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2


mario.


Delfos, Jacob wrote:

>For Chinese characters to display, I think you need to have 16-bit HTML code
>(unicode). I haven't done this before, so I am not entirely confident about
>how to do it. But if you look at the source code of a chinese page in
>notepad, you'll see it looks funny. I think to display chinese characters,
>you'd need to have the page that shows them to be in unicode. The 'easy way
>out' would be to change that text into images.
>
>Jacob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert W. Burgholzer [mailto:rburgholzer at maptech-inc.com] 
>Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2004 8:00 PM
>To: boli; Mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] (no subject)
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>
>I am just giessing here, but maybe this is a use for true type fonts? You 
>install true type fonts in a directory, then refer to them in the map file.
>
>Good luck,
>
>r.b.
>
>At 01:58 PM 6/12/2004 +0800, you wrote:
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>
>>Hello everybody,
>>
>>    I got a vector map which include records with Chinese character in
>>dataset. While the Chinese character can't be displayed correctly by 
>>Mapserver. Can you give me some advice?
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