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

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Saka,

It might work, but I think you are making this more complicated that it 
needs to be.

Is there something that you think your approach can do that you can not 
do with the fribidi2 support integrated into Mapserver? or MS4W? I would 
be interested in hearing about that.

If your concern is whether or not it is built into MS4W then you should 
get on the MS4W list as Daniel suggested and you should add yourself to 
the CC list of the ticket that Jeff referenced so you can track the 
status of this issue.

By the way the fribidi2 support works very nicely in mapserver and 
clients that have been using it are very happy with the rendering results.

Best regards,
   -Steve W

Saka Royban wrote:
> 
> 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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