Unicode support

[Daniel Morissette]

Steve Hall wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there know what level of Unicode (UTF-8) support is
> present in Mapserver?  I'm looking to start a project based in one of
> the Far Eastern countries (not decided which yet - possibly Thailand)
> and the map output will need to be localised (i.e labels in local font,
> unicode etc).  I've proven some of the other parts of the project
> (Apache, PHP, Postgres, Oracle etc) but i'm not sure about Mapserver
> right now.  If I have a number of unicode data sources (OGR MapInfo TAB,
> Oracle Spatial, PostGIS) is support present for all of them or am I
> likely to be struggling!?   Are there any docs on the subject that i've
> missed?
>

Support for labelling maps using Japanese, Chinese and Thai has been
added to MapServer 4.3 recently. You'll find more info, including docs
in bug 858:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=858

Daniel
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