[mapserver-users] Rendering Hindi Characters

[Peter Mallen]

Hi Puneet,

I did try feeding MapServer the correct Unicode characters, and it did fix the characters using what I believe is called the "Reph" symbol (ि) but I could not get the conjunct consonants to display correctly.

Also, I have posted on the fribidi list and I believe it does only help with bidirectional languages, but I could be wrong.

Thank You,

Peter Mallen 

-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mr. Puneet Kishor
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:27 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Rendering Hindi Characters


On Jan 23, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:

> On 1/23/2013 2:20 PM, Peter Mallen wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>> 
>> I am having issues rendering certain Hindi characters. I am using 
>> UTF-8 encoding.
>> 
>> When attempting to display the following Hindi character in 
>> MapServer: र्ट
>> 
>> It is rendered in MapServer as the following two characters: र् ट
>> 
>> I believe these characters form what is called a conjunct consonant, 
>> of which there appear to be thousands of and most of them do not 
>> render using MapServer.
>> 
>> Also, It appears that MapServer is having an issue displaying these 
>> conjunct consonants and wants to display these characters separately 
>> rather than to form them as one combined character.
>> 
>> Here is a link describing more about the Devanagari alphabet:
>> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm
>> 
>> Can anyone please help with this?
>> 
>> Thank You,
>> 
>> Peter Mallen
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I can not speak to this specific problem but I can give you and overview. Mapserver uses fribidi library for rending this data and I know from working with Arabic that a lot depends on the font you are using, in additional to the capabilities and version of fribidi library.



Isn't fribidi specifically for bidirectional languages? Hindi is strictly LTR.


> 
> This kind of question is probably best asked on the fribidi list as they will know more about what is supported or not for any given language and they might be able to point you to a better font.
> 
> http://www.fribidi.org/
> 
> You should probably make sure you are using a recent version of the library like 0.19.2 or better and be aware the 0.19.5 was released in Dec 2012.
> 


Peter, I forget where you and I left our off-list conversation re. the issues you were having with rendering Devnagari. Did you try feeding MapServer the correct Unicode characters?

Hope you figure this out.


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Puneet Kishor

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