[mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 6/18/2012 6:46 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> That is encouraging, however our concern is that the character rendering
> is not supported.

Ian,

What do you mean by this statement?

What have you tried? ie: what does you mapfile look like, what font are 
you using, etc?

For this to work you need the following:

1. a mapserver build with fribidi-0.19.2
2. a truetype fone file that supports all the glyphs that you need
3. your mapfile and data configured correctly such that the text in the 
data is appropriately for the ENCODING and that that then matches the ttf.

-Steve W

> Regards
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
> McKenna
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 3:06 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Hindi and Thai text rendering
>
> On 12-06-18 6:45 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>>
>>
>> We are seeing some issues displaying Hindi and Thai text, from a quick
>
>> search it looks like this may be related to there not being support
>> for Indic scripts.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can anyone confirm if these are supported? And if they are not are
>> there any workarounds?
>>
>
> Hello Ian,
>
> I can for sure confirm that Thai text is supported, as it was one of the
> languages tested during the initial implementation of the source code
> (see the notes at the bottom of
> http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/labelencoding.html).
>
> There's always a chance that things have changed with MapServer 6.0, but
> if you provide a small data sample, font, and simple one layer mapfile I
> am sure others on this email list can test and provide feedback for you.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff McKenna
> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
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