[Qgis-developer] Problem in Displaying Myanmar Unicode Font in QGIS

Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.asia at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 00:26:32 PST 2015


I should have added that Qt4 doesn't have rendering issues because it
shapes text using the windows uniscribe library.
On 10 Dec 2015 15:25, "Mathieu Pellerin" <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Long story short, QGIS compiled against Qt4 (which is what the official
> version does) doesn't support proper Burmese script ordering under linux.
> This is due to Qt4 (not actively developed anymore) using an old library to
> shape unicode scripts.
>
> QGIS compiled against Qt5 fixes all rendering issues for Burmese language.
>
> Therefore at the moment your options are to either
> a/ run QGIS on windows 7 (within a virtual machine if you don't want to
> permanently install the OS); or
> b/ compile a QGIS build for yourself if you are able to do so, from which
> you could create packages to distribute to other users.
>
> Math
>
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