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

KhunSanAung khunsanaung.gis at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 02:33:18 PST 2015


Great to hear Math.

Where can I download QGIS  source code for 32 bit & 64 bit Windows and if
will make us easy if some reference document for building are also
available?
I'm happy to try it.

Many thanks & best regards

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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