[mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering

[Ian Walberg]

Thomas,

 

We are currently using fibidi 0.19.2 and can try the later versions.

 

I have just had a look at 0.19.4 and 0.19.5 and I am not sure how to build them, there does not appear to be build instructions in them or a configure script.

 

Have you (or anyone else on the list) built these for Linux?

 

Thanks

 

Ian

 

From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of thomas bonfort
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 12:48 AM
To: MapserverList OSGEO
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering

 

 

 

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 some stable distros use a very outdated fribidi version, so you might need to upgrade manually) .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]
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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