[mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering

[thomas bonfort]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:45 AM, thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>wrote:

> Peter,
> We don't do any shaping directly inside mapserver, but rely on the fribidi
> library to do that for us. Your mapfile definitions are correct to activate
> this (i.e. it includes an LABEL.ENCODING parameter).
> I'll leave it up to you to confirm that the image sample I sent you is
> correct or not. If so, check that you have configured your mapserver with
> fribidi enabled and uptodate (the supplied image was rendered with 0.19.2 .
> some stable distros use a very outdated fribidi version, so you might need
> to upgrade manually) . If not, you can try with a bleeding edge fribidi
> (0.19.5 was released a few days ago), and/or report the issue or find help
> from the fribidi project directly.
>
> please report back with your findings.
>
> regards,
> thomas
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Peter Mallen <peter.mallen at airborne.aero>wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> Here is a link to a png Image I have created of using the simple Map File
>> I provided in the previous postings, this is exactly how the Hindi text is
>> rendering in Map Server:
>> http://www.maplusplus.com/images/Hindi_Incorrect.png
>>
>> It is appearing incorrectly and should appear as shown in this link to
>> Google Translate:
>> http://tinyurl.com/cqlymgy
>>
>> I am not sure if the Hindi you have provided is displaying correctly,
>> although it appears to be similar to what I looked up in Google Translate.
>>
>>
>> Thank You for your help,
>>
>> Peter Mallen
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: thomas bonfort [mailto:thomas.bonfort at gmail.com<thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>
>> ]
>> Sent: Sat 12/15/2012 10:36 AM
>> To: Peter Mallen
>> Cc: MapserverList OSGEO
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering
>>
>> Peter,
>> You don't provide the rendering that mapserver is producing, so it's
>> difficult to compare. Is this rendering correct:
>> http://osm.terriscope.fr/mapcache/tms/1.0.0/mapserver@g/15/23400/19085.png?
>>
>> --
>> thomas
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Peter Mallen
>> <peter.mallen at airborne.aero>wrote:
>>
>> > Hello Everyone,
>> >
>> > I apologize for my previous posts as my url appears to have been too
>> > long, I have converted the link to a tiny url:
>> > http://tinyurl.com/cqlymgy
>> >
>> > As a reminder, this is a link showing how the Hindi characters should
>> > display.
>> >
>> > Thank You Again,
>> >
>> > Peter Mallen
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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