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

[KhunSanAung]

Hi Math,

Sure, I've used the appropriate fonts for each of them.
They both have issue.

I'll try building from source code.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I should have read your email more carefully, you quite clearly state that
> the rendering is broken on windows too. Good to know, as it offers yet one
> more argument to support the migration to Qt5.
>
> Just in case this might actually be a font problem instead of a rendering
> problem, have you tried to display the ZawGyiOne and unicode text using the
> appropriate font (vs. the default system font which is used in the
> attribute table shown in your screenshots)?
>
> Instructions to build QGIS are here:
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/INSTALL, however it doesn't
> cover Qt5. Maybe Matthias Kuhn can help here.
>
> Math
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:33 PM, KhunSanAung <khunsanaung.gis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Have a nice day!
>> --
>>
>> *Mr. Khun San Aung*
>> * <http://geoportal.icimod.org/>*
>>
>
>


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