[mapserver-users] Encoding issues

[Murty Maganti]

Hello 

 

I am having some issues using Arabic text as labels. I am using C# map
script. I am setting the following at runtime

 

labelObj label = classObj.label;

label.encoding = "CP1256";

label.text = "some text in Arabic"; (At rune time in VS, I can see the
text is actually in Arabic)

 

But labels are displayed as '?????'.

 

 Is there any conversion I need to do before setting the text value. How
are the string represented in the underlying mapscript dll (ASCII or
Unicode?). As I was reading in the MSDN, the default marshalling uses
LPStr which is a single byte of ASCII. Does it mean that first I need to
convert from Unicode to ASCII in C# before setting the value.

 

Appreciate any help.

 

Thanks

Murty

 

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