[mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 10/21/2010 4:20 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Many thanks for you help, we had an old version of fribidi and building
> 0.19.2 fixed the character join issue.
>
> We do appear to have a couple of labels with square boxes (invalid chat
> I assume) at the end but I need to check the source data as well.

This means the the font is missing that particular joining character. I 
would be interested in knowing if there is a good font that the fribidi 
team recommends if you contact them or if you find one that is complete. 
I have clients, that have licensed fonts that are more complete, by 
still had to go in add a few additional glyphs. I do not remember what 
font they got or where they got it from.

-Steve W

> Regards
>
> Ian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:51 AM
> To: Ian Walberg
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering
>
> The key is to make sure you are using fribidi-0.19.2.tar.gz I do not use
>
> fgs, so I'm not sure what they are using. I have downloaded the source
> and compiled and in stalled it under /usr/local/. Make sure you do NOT
> have the system package for fribidi installed as that is the old one
> that does not support the joining.
>
> Did you copy the font file you used for ms4w to linux to make sure you
> are using the same file?
>
> -Steve W
>
> On 10/21/2010 11:04 AM, Ian Walberg wrote:
>> Steve,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> We have a working setup on Window using ms4w and used the same map,
>> shape and fonts files on the Linux setup which is an fgs install but
>> this shows the characters broken.
>>
>> Is anyone out using a working linux installation which correctly joins
>> Arabic characters?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
>> Woodbridge
>> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:20 AM
>> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ian
>>> Walberg
>>> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:10 PM
>>> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>> 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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