[mapserver-users] agg support and accents umlauts

[thomas bonfort]

> 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.
>

Coming out of nowhere and bitching on a project because you haven't
understood the extent of a closed bug seems to me a very impolite way
of introducing yourself and getting people to want to help you imho.

Now onto the points you're raising:
- as Tamas said, there's no support for accented characters *with the
embedded raster raster fonts*. Truetype fonts don't have this problem
provided you use/specify the correct encoding of your text.
- for the compile stuff, agg is mostly templated code which means that
most of the agg code itself has to be compiled each time mapagg.cpp is
compiled.

thomas