I've located the problem, it seems that the TTF font (Arabic Transparent) is not 100% unicode safe. And maybe I've messed something up, so that the font Arial didn't produce the correct result. But now I can use Arial to produce image.
However, there still seems to be a slight problem (well, I'm not sure whether it is a proble, since I can't read Arabic). When the label has an angle, the words are broken a bit. Although they are using the joined character but there are tiny gaps between them. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Stephen Woodbridge < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jackey, > > Try locating a different font. if the text is being rendered as glyphs and > they look correct, but is missing the joining information, it is likely that > the font you are using does not include the joining glyphs. > > If you are using a windows machine, try getting mapserver via the fonts.txt > file to point to the arial.ttf in the fonts folder. And change you FONT > "..." to select the windows arial font. This assumes that you can display > arabic text correctly using the arial font from a windows application like > excel. > > -Steve W. > > Jackey Cheung wrote: > >> Greetings! >> >> >> We've build the MapServer 5.2 on a Linux server, with fribidi2 0.19.1, to >> try show Arabic labels. But the words has been broken down to characters >> in >> the generated images (line.png). Then we've tried on a MS4W 2.3.0 server, >> but the images (ms4w.png) are even worse. >> >> We are using PostGIS, and the database is using UTF8 (pgpr.png), while all >> Arabic data can be shown correctly (pg.png) on my English Windows XP, and >> >> we've tried some more machines, or on IE, to make sure that Arabic text in >> database are really UTF8. >> >> Here's the images: http://www3.mapasia.com/jackout/ara.png >> >> >> The part of the map file is as follow, where the "arbic-trans" is a Arabic >> TrueType font named "Arabic Transparent": >> LABEL >> ANGLE FOLLOW >> PRIORITY [priority] >> ENCODING "UTF-8" >> COLOR 0 0 0 >> OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255 >> TYPE TRUETYPE >> FONT "arbic-trans" >> SIZE 7 >> POSITION AUTO >> PARTIALS FALSE >> MINDISTANCE 500 >> BUFFER 1 >> MINFEATURESIZE 50 >> END >> >> Could anyone please help. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> > >
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