[mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Ian,

You have to get a truetype font that supports arabic and has all the 
chaining glyphs in it. Microsoft has an arial font that is about 24MB 
file size that is pretty good, not that I'm suggesting you violate their 
EUA. There are also some commercial fonts that you can buy that do the 
job pretty well.

You might ask for font suggestions on fribidi software list.

As far as installation, all you need to do for maperver is copy the font 
to a directory that your webserver can access, can create fontlist.txt 
that points to that font. Then you can referrence the file via the alias 
you gave it in the fontlist.txt file. See the documentation for how to 
do this.

-Steve W

On 10/20/2010 10:08 AM, Ian Walberg wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with Arabic text on a Linux
> installation?
>
> Thanks
>
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> Walberg
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> Subject: [mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering
>
> On Linux we are Arabic words rendered as individual characters and on
> Windows the characters are joined correctly.
>
> Same map file, shapefile and font on each.
>
> We have tried both the mapserver and libs we have built from source and
> the fgs binary install on Linux and both render individual characters.
>
> Can anyone point me to what lib or config I need to change?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
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