[mapserver-users] Label encoding

[Tamas Szekeres]

Hi Murty,

Could you provide a sample application along with the data so that I could
check out this issue in my Vista machine?

Best regards,

Tamas



2009/3/12 Murty Maganti <MMaganti at oriongis.com>

>  Hi
>
>
>
> >The iconv.dll and fribidi.dll should be available to load by the
> application by default.
> >Does this issue exists only when fribidi is compiled in? I can see a
> couple of non-const static variables used by the fribidi library and I
> wonder if we should >protect the access to these functions with locks inside
> the mapserver code in a multi-threaded  environment.
>
>
>
> I have the both DLLs present in PATH/binary folders. Though I see
> SUPPORT=FRIBIDI output from map server, but I guess it is going through
> iconv. When a specify wrong encoding like ‘abc’ it throws exception that the
> encoding is not supported by iconv, which means it is using iconv.
>
>
>
> Forgot to mention this previously. There is no problem loading the map file
> (with encoding) in a desktop application on Vista. It hangs when I load in
> ASP.Net environment. But same map file loads fine in ASP.Net on XP machine.
>
>
>
> Appreciate all the help.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Murty
>
>
>
> *From:* Tamas Szekeres [mailto:szekerest at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:28 PM
> *To:* Murty Maganti
> *Cc:* Daniel Morissette; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [mapserver-users] Label encoding
>
>
>
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> 2009/3/11 Murty Maganti <MMaganti at oriongis.com>
>
> Hi
>
> Is that list same if map server is compiled with Fribidi or is it
> different?
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I can see the followings added in fribidi (according to
> fribidi-char-sets-list.h)
>
> #ifdef _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_OTHERS
> _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_OTHERS (UTF8, utf8)        /* UTF-8 (Unicode) */
> _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_OTHERS (CAP_RTL, cap_rtl)        /* CapRTL (Test) */
> #endif /* _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_OTHERS */
> #ifdef _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_ONE2ONE
> _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_ONE2ONE (ISO8859_6, iso8859_6)    /* ISO8859-6
> (Arabic) */
> _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_ONE2ONE (ISO8859_8, iso8859_8)    /* ISO8859-8
> (Hebrew) */
> _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_ONE2ONE (CP1255, cp1255)        /* CP1255 (MS
> Hebrew/Yiddish) */
> _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_ONE2ONE (CP1256, cp1256)        /* CP1256 (MS Arabic)
> */
> #endif /* _FRIBIDI_ADD_CHAR_SET_ONE2ONE */
>
>
> As far as I can see this takes precedence over iconv when fribidi is
> compiled in, unless you specify FRIBIDI_NO_CHARSETS when compiling
> mapserver. In the latter case iconv is used to when doing the encoding.
>
>
> Also, have another issue. I have a map file that loads perfectly fine on
> XP and vista. The moment I add encoding attribute, it does not load in
> vista (no matter what the coding value). It just hangs in mapObj.draw()
> and need to restart IIS. Works fine on XP. Is there any clue where I can
> look to resolve the issue. Do I need to install any additional libraries
> for Iconv or Fribidi on Vista?
>
>
> The iconv.dll and fribidi.dll should be available to load by the
> application by default.
> Does this issue exists only when fribidi is compiled in? I can see a couple
> of non-const static variables used by the fribidi library and I wonder if we
> should protect the access to these functions with locks inside the mapserver
> code in a multi-threaded  environment.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>
>
>
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