Jackey,
I'm not sure how much more I can help other than to say:
1) make sure you are building with fribidi2 version 0.19.1+
2) Since character are generated individually on rotated labels, there
may be an issue. Thomas Bonfort would be the person that implemented the
AGG. You should probably try doing this with the AGG driver if you have
not tried that yet. That is what I'm using.
3) try to locate a better/different font that supports Arabic
-Steve
Jackey Cheung wrote:
Steve,
Thanks for the advise, but we've tried the Arial font already in the
first test, it's just the same. We thought it was the fribidi2's problem
since 0.19.1 doesn't have their configure script changed, and tried the
0.10.9, but it's all the same, every word is broken.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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.
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