On 10 Feb 2008, at 13:48, J.D. Schmidt wrote: > Artem, could you take a look ? > > > -------- Original Meddelelse -------- > Moshe Sayag skrev: >> When a place is labeled in Hebrew (which is written right-to-left) it >> appears correctly in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] browser, but backward in OSM >> slippy map. >> For example, see how the label of the city of Ashkelon is printed >> in each >> map: >> Correct: http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/? >> x=4882&y=3335&z=13&layer=tile >> Incorrect: http://www.openstreetmap.org/? >> lat=32.634&lon=35.2967&zoom=12 >> How can this be fixed?
Yes. In the past Mapnik was using fribidi library to support right-to- left languages, unfortunately we had to disable it as it is not thread safe. >> Is this is a problem with the SVG renderer? No. > > Not unless you want the [EMAIL PROTECTED] tiles to be written backwards too. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uses the svg rendering via Osmarender. > > The OSM slippy map default layer uses Mapnik. I'm sure Artem will be > along shortly, with an explanation and a fix. > The quickest) way to solve this (plus shaping for arabic script) would be to install postarabic module: http://dcmms.sourceforge.net/postarabic.php. I have a patch somewhere to detect text that needs reversing. JonB, could we look into this? Is it possible to get postgresql-devel stuff on tile to compile this module? > > Dutch > Artem Artem _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
