[mapserver-users] Farsi right-to-left labels

[Daniel Morissette]

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> I looked at the patch briefly.
> It doesn't seem to be doing character joining for works in Arabic.
> 
> I'm thinking that if we had the algorithm to do the joining then we 
> could add that and maybe a Tag or metadata item that enabled the joining 
>  if needed. The joining algorithm, might be smart enough to only join 
> Arabic letters and leave the rest alone.
> 
> If you are interested, I think I can get my hands on a perl script that 
> does the joining.
> 

I have to admit I'm not sure what's involved or even meant by character 
joining (I didn't look at this yet). To avoid bloating ticket #956 with 
too much stuff, perhaps you could file another ticket with a description 
of that specific joining issue, and links to relevant Perl code, 
examples, and whatever might help me address this (and then link to the 
new ticket as a related issue in Ticket #956).

Daniel
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