International text characters

Robert Jones xbobwjones at HOTMAIL.COM
Tue May 17 05:32:32 PDT 2005


Hi

I posted a couple of weeks ago and have not been able to solve my problem
with international text characters not displaying properly..

I am using a shapefile with text fields encoded in LATIN1, and am almost
certain that the truetype font I am using to label supports these characters.

Can anyone help?  I stuck..

I'm thinking it must have something to do with either the font, libiconv, or
ms4w - which I used to set up mapserver.  Has anyone else experienced
similar problems with ms4w?

I am setting up the the layer as follows:

#Towns layer
  LAYER
    NAME "bart_caps2"
    GROUP "twn"
    STATUS ON
    DATA "twn_p"
    TYPE POINT
    CLASSITEM "CODE"
    UNITS METERS
    SIZEUNITS PIXELS
    MINSCALE 0
    MAXSCALE 58936139
    LABELITEM "COMMENT"
    LABELCACHE ON
    POSTLABELCACHE FALSE
    TOLERANCE 0
    TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
    TRANSPARENCY 100
    METADATA
      "Description"    "bart_twn"
    END
    #end metadata
    PROJECTION
      "init=epsg:4326"
    END
    #end projection
    CLASS
      NAME "bart_twn"
      EXPRESSION ([CODE] > 70 AND [CODE] < 72)
      LABEL
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        FONT ARIAL
        ENCODING LATIN1
        SIZE 10
        POSITION AUTO
        OFFSET 0 0
        COLOR 1 1 1
        OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
        PARTIALS TRUE
        FORCE FALSE
      END
      STYLE
        SYMBOL 7
        COLOR 255 0 0
        OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
        BACKGROUNDCOLOR 0 0 0
        SIZE 6
        ANTIALIAS FALSE
      END
    #end style
    END
  #end class
  END
  #END LAYER


Thanks
Rob



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