[mapserver-users] Place names and language

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Aimee,

Please see the steps documented in the "Display of International 
Characters" doc at http://mapserver.org/mapfile/encoding.html  Be sure 
that your mapfile is saved as UTF8 encoding as well.

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/

On 2017-01-21 1:56 PM, aimdev wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have installed on mapserver a planet file imported using imposm3.
> Maps all ok, however, for non english countries,(Middle East/Russia/China etc) the place names  are in the local language
> (Arabic/Russian or for China, square boxes).
> Is this normal?, or have I messed up somewhere in a mapping?
>
> Thanks
>
> Aimee
>
> mapserver 7.0.3 is the server release.
>
>