[mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

[Knut Behrends]

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Hi List, I need some clarification:

Do I understand this ticket correctly:

>http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2739
>Rendering raster fonts with AGG may cause crash in mapserver

>I've noticed that rendering raster fonts when the character code falls
>outside of the 23-127 domain may cause crash in mapserver. The
>following patch provides a fix for the problem, however I consider this
>as rather a bug in the AGG libraries


This means that AGG has no ability whatsoever to deal with non-standard
non-ASCII characters such as ä,ü, §, ß ? Is it really impossible to
render vowels with accents, Umlauts, Sharp-S and so on with AGG? Then
why has AGG been included into the mapserver distribution in the first
place?

Or is there a clever trick to hack the makefile of the libagg (by the
way, building agg took way too long a time on my machine) or the
freetype libs.

mapserver-config --version; mapserver-config --includes
5.2.1
- -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/geo/include/agg2
- -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/geo/include
- -I/usr/include/pgsql -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/libxml2

Agg development seems to have stalled, doesn't it.



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