Hello Saka,
There are a lot of pieces that you have to get working together to get
this to work:
1) mapserver 5.2 MUST be built with fribidi2 support. I beleieve this is
also designated as version fribidi-0.19.1
2) A typetype font file that contains the shape gliphs that you might
need along with the characters that you need to display.
3) And I'm sure this works with UTF-8, but unsure about other encodings.
4) your data converted to UTF-8 if it is in some other encoding
5) and finally you mapfile label definition which specifies an encoding
of utf-8.
You might get other variations of this to work, I would be interested in
hearing your reports of you can get others to work. I have sucessfully
gotten the above to work.
Best regards,
-Stephen Woodbridge
Saka Royban wrote:
Hi all.
I've asked this problem in MS4W mailing list but no success. it sounds
it originally relates to mapserver
According to what History.txt for MS4W2.2.8 says, problem for arabic
and hebrew languages has been solved by using UTF8. But i couldn't get a
good result.
In fact, UTF8 doesn't show letters correctly (just some symbols). i have
tried lots of fonts but the same result.
in current version, the problem of joining letters have been solved
because i can get result using 'ISO8859-6' encoding which is for arabic
but now this encoding changes some of letters with each other.
In last version, 'Windows-1256' encoding (for arabic) worked well for
showing letters just they were separate not joint. but in cuurent
versions this encoding just shows some symbols.
I'm confused. maybe i should setup sth which i don't do or i don't know
sth else.
that would be my appreciate to help me because it is really a need. Maps
without labels have less usage.
Thanks in advance
(See attachments)
My Mapfile:
LABEL
TYPE TrueType
FONT timesnewromans
ENCODING 'windows-1256'
SIZE 12
END
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