Hi Glynn wrote: > I can't comment on GDAL/OGR issues, but the display library will > accept data in any encoding recognised by iconv[1] when using FreeType > fonts. You just need to specify the encoding via the charset= option. > > [1] Provided that GRASS was built to use iconv(); this is > autodetected. Otherwise, text is treated as ISO-8859-1.
Jana wrote: > That's correct Glynn, I've just tested that. The trick is as simple as to > use *Truetype* font and set charset to the encoding used in the input vector > map (Apparently, my GRASS was not built to use iconv() :-) There is no reference to iconv in the grass configure options, so I suspect that what Glynn means is that iconv is autodetected in the build process. There's no autodetection of the encoding when it comes to using d.font. Craig _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user