[mapserver-users] Arabic-Farsi-Hebrew support?

[Saka Royban]

Thanks stephen for your kind help.
I'm thinking on a solution of using mapscript. i don't know whether it is true or not.
using mapscript, getting the label positions from it and then compling labels in programming language,finally giving the result as an image to mapscript to show iton top of other layers. because i haven't use mapsript up to know, i'm not sure about it. Do you think it works?


--- On Tue, 8/5/08, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:

From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Arabic-Farsi-Hebrew support?
To: srph124 at yahoo.com
Cc: "MapServer" <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 8:49 AM

Saka,

You probably need to check on the MS4W list to be sure, but I did file a 
bug for this support and I think the ticket was closed so it should be 
supported, but you will probably need one of the most recent ones and 
I'm not sure if the change has been released yet. Check with MS4W for 
the status on this or read the release notes which are sure to mention it.

-Steve W

Saka Royban wrote:
> 
> Thanks Stephen
> sorry about gettext. I was mensioning this in CartoWeb mailinglist 
> implemented on Mapserver. forgetting to remove it.
> as i understand, you say i can use mapserever 5.2 and it has support of 
> this by fribidi2. because i use MS4W with no building from scratch,
i'm 
> asking this question.
> Thanks again for your help
> 
> --- On *Mon, 8/4/08, Stephen Woodbridge /<woodbri at swoodbridge.com>/*
wrote:
> 
>     From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
>     Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Arabic-Farsi-Hebrew support?
>     To: "Saka Royban" <srph124 at yahoo.com>
>     Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 9:15 AM
> 
>     Saka Royban wrote:
>     > 
>     > Hi all.
>     > I'm new to Mapserver. I want to know if Mapserver is able to
handle 
>     > Arabic-Farsi(Persian) and Hebrew correctly (using gettext). In
these 
>     > languages letter join to each other to form a word not like
others which 
>     > letters are separate with no problem. also they are written right
to 
>     > left not left to right. This is an important point for labeling. 
>     > Searching nabble.com, i found a post some months ago discussing
around 
>     > this problem and associated ticket. That would be my pleasure to
know 
>     > the result if any knows.
>     > Thanks in advance
> 
>     Well, I'm not sure about "gettext" part of your
question, but
>     with 
>     Release 5.2 you can now build with fribidi2 support and render labels 
>     with shaping in Arabic-Farsi(Persian) and Hebrew correctly provided
you 
>     have a truetype font that supports all the unicode shape characters.
> 
>     -Steve W
> 
> 
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