[mapserver-users] Publishing International Characters (Hindi) labels in WMS

[Stephen Woodbridge]

The font you select has to have the Hindi glyphs in it.

Also what version of mapserver are you using?

Also see:

https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/4630
https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/4673

http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-98.html

-Steve W

On 1/29/2014 12:13 AM, davequery78 wrote:
> I have UTF-8 encoded shape file (i.e. shape file with cpg “UTF-8”) and trying
> to publish WMS with International Characters (Hindi) labels in via
> MapServer.
>
> As per attached snapshot, I am able to view International Characters (Hindi)
> labels in ESRI ArcDesktop.
> <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/n5100605/hindi.png>
>
> My Font file is
> arial2		arial.ttf
>
> My Map file is
> LAYER
>      DATA "C:/Temp/Hindi2.shp"
>      NAME "POINT"
>      TYPE POINT
>      LABELITEM "HINDI"
>      CLASS
>        LABEL
>          FONT "arial2"
>          TYPE TRUETYPE
>          SIZE 5
>          COLOR 0 0 255
>          MINDISTANCE -1
>          MINFEATURESIZE -1
>          PARTIALS TRUE
>          POSITION CR
>          OFFSET 5 0
>          PRIORITY 10
>          BUFFER 1
>          OUTLINECOLOR 204 255 255
>          ENCODING "UTF-8"
>        END
>        STYLE
>          COLOR 163 123 57
>          SIZE 5
>          SYMBOL "CIRCLE"
>          STYLE
>            OUTLINECOLOR 163 123 57
>            WIDTH 1
>          END
>        END
>      END
>
> In WMS GetMap URL label output is “???”
>
> Please help me in resolving this issue of displaying International
> Characters (Hindi) lables via MapServer.
>
>
>
>
>
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