Special characters in annotations

[Steve Lime]

True. That's because the built-in raster GD fonts have very limited character sets...

Steve

>>> Stephen Davies <sdc at SDC.COM.AU> 01/30/06 6:13 PM >>>
G'day Wim.

The secret seems to be that the annotation MUST use a true-type font.
If I add that to my definition, it works as you said.

Cheers and thanks,
Stephen

On Monday 30 January 2006 21:07, you wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> That's strange, i got the remark from this link:
> http://freegis.org/pipermail/mapserver-de/2004-May/000271.html
>
> In my mapfile it is working allright:
>
> LAYER
>   NAME Copyright
>   TYPE annotation
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   TRANSFORM OFF
>   LABELCACHE on
>   FORCE true
>   CLASS
>     TEXT '© 2000 Minnesota DNR'
>     LABEL
>       POSITION lr
>       TYPE TRUETYPE
>       FONT verdana
>       COLOR 255 255 255
>       OUTLINECOLOR 155 155 155
>       SIZE 10
>     END
>   END
>   FEATURE
>     POINTS 10 10 END
>   END
> END #LAYER
>
> Regards,
>
> Wim Blanken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Davies [mailto:sdc at sdc.com.au]
> Sent: maandag 30 januari 2006 9:40
> To: UMN MapServer Users List
> Cc: Wim Blanken
> Subject: Re: Special characters in annotations
>
> G'day Wim.
>
> Your suggested "©" works in symbols but does not seem to work in
> annotations. I just see © rather than a copyright symbol.
>
> Can you give me the URL that you found?
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
> On Sunday 29 January 2006 16:31, MAPSERVER-USERS automatic digest
> system
>
> wrote:
> > Date:    Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:47:54 +0100
> > From:    Wim Blanken <w.blanken at GEON.NL>
> > Subject: Re: Special characters in annotations
> >
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > Googled it and this came forward:
> >
> > TEXT '© 2000 Minnesota DNR'
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Wim Blanken
> > The Netherlands
>
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