[mapserver-users] Arabic text

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 9/18/2010 12:55 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
> Can anyone point us at the details of how to display Arabic text. We
> tried a few weeks ago and could not get the characters to link up but
> they did look correct as single characters.
>
> Does the fgs install for Linux or the ms4w on windows support Arabic text?

Ian,

In your LABEL block you need to have ENCODING 'your encoding' and you 
need a text font that has all the joining character glyphs and mapserver 
needs to be with fribidi-0.19.2

I think both FGS and MS4W both build with that.

Often, the hardest part is finding a good text font that supports all 
the characters.

-Steve