International text characters

[Janeks Kamerovskis]

I faced with similar problems in Latvian, when using shape files.
I had problem to show right language specific simbols in labels on map.
The problem for Latvian language is that there is multiple encodings.
I solved that problem by using an older RimFonts, that have different
encoding.
And I did it just by dummy testing, because I know that something similar
happens
with ArcView 3.x

Probably some light could ge Googling for Font encoding on mapserver site.

But regarding language specific things, there are just few lines in docs.

Would be good to see some where what mapserver is doing when are outputing
on
picture string that f.ex is in LatinX.


Janeks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Robert Jones
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:33 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] International text characters
>
>
> 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