National fonts in labels

[Nikos]

Sašo Celarc wrote:

>How can be national characters correctly displayed as layer/feature labels.
>In DBF (through Excel and one other DBF viewer) I can see national
>characters which are in CP1250. When I display map, this characters are
>visible as strange characters.
>I tried with copying ttf file (arial.ttf) from Windows fonts to the
>MapServer ../fonts directory too. But without success.
>
>My whole installation is on Win XP.
>
>What should I do?
>
>Regards,
>Saso
>  
>
Try setting the characterset in your template, e.g, for greek..

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7"/> 

regards,
nikos