[mapserver-users] Reversed Arabic Words/Numbers

[Jeff McKenna]

Here is the small sample that I put together for that ticket, so you can 
test locally and provide feedback: 
https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/files/1005449/ticket-5426-arabic-labels.zip

-jeff


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




On 2017-06-15 7:23 PM, apollolm wrote:
> Hi - I opened an Issue in the Git repo here:
> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5426, but wanted to also ask
> here if anybody has encountered this same issue with Mapserver 7.0.4.
> 
> Copied from Github:
> 
> We recently upgraded from MapServer 6.2.1 to 7.0.4.
> 
> One issue we're seeing is that Arabic road labels that contain a number and
> a word like طريق 30 is being displayed with the 30 to the right of the
> phrase. (So Road 30 instead of 30 Road)
> 
> (See the link for screenshots of 6.2.1 vs. 7.0.4)
> 
> The '30' should appear to the left of the word.
> 
> We are using fribidi_0.19.6 and harfbuzz_1.4.1 (both in our new and previous
> versions of MapServer). This is happening on both a Windows and Ubuntu 16.04
> environment, and seems to only affect the ordering of labels when a number
> is present in an Arabic label.
> 
> One thing that changed in our installation had to do with a
> freetype/harfbuzz circular dependency:
> I had to compile and install freetype w/o harfbuzz. Then install harfbuzz.
> And then compile and install freetype w/ harfbuzz on top of existing
> freetype. I am pretty sure that when I installed freetype the second time it
> overwrote the freetype libraries from the first installation of freetype.
> 
> Here are the options we used when compiling:
> -DWITH_GDAL=1 -DWITH_HARFBUZZ=1 -DWITH_THREAD_SAFETY=1 -DWITH_JAVA=1
> -DWITH_CAIRO=0 -DWITH_GEOS=0 -DWITH_POSTGIS=0 -DWITH_RSVG=0
> -DWITH_CLIENT_WMS=0 -DWITH_CLIENT_WFS=0 -DWITH_WFS=0 -DWITH_LIBXML2=0
> -DWITH_KML=0 -DWITH_GIF=0 -DWITH_EXEMPI=0 -DWITH_FCGI=0
> 
> The input data for both versions is identical - the only thing I can tell
> that is different is the version of MapServer.
> 
> Based on the comments in the Git issue, I tried using the ENCODING block as
> well with no effect.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>