> RFC suggests all characters should iconv'd to > UTF-8. Am I right? If you're creating the datasource from scratch and have the choice, then yes, use UTF8. If you have an exisiting datasource you cannot modify, just set the LAYER->ENCODING to ISO-8859 (well, the one that is is supported by iconv) and the transormation to utf8 will be done automatically and internally by mapserver.
-- thomas > > > -Stefanos > > > > > Στις 8:25 μ.μ. Δευτέρα, 26 Οκτωβρίου 2015, ο/η thomas bonfort > <thomas.bonf...@gmail.com> έγραψε: > > > Stefanos, > First off, you *need* to know the encoding that's actually used by > each datasource, there's no way of guessing that reliably > programmatically. And since MapServer 7, the ENCODING keyword has been > moved to the LAYER level: > http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-103.html > If you have the possibility, and/or in the future, always use UTF8 > inside your datasources. > > regards, > thomas > > On 26 October 2015 at 19:16, Stefanos Anastasiou <emperor_s...@yahoo.gr> > wrote: >> Hello everybody. >> >> I'm having a small issue with truetype and encoding in greek. Instead of >> normal letters I'm getting weird symbols or even shapes. >> >> iconv -l | grep {GREEK | ISO-8859-7 | WINDOWS-1253} are all >> present in the system. >> >> >> My Mapserver version: >> >> MapServer version 7.0.0 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=KML SUPPORTS=PROJ >> SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=XMP >> SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT >> SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER >> SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER >> SUPPORTS=FASTCGI >> SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL >> INPUT=SHAPEFILE >> >> >> My LABEL object in my code is the following: >> >> LABEL >> TYPE truetype >> FONT arial >> SIZE 6 >> PARTIALS TRUE >> ENCODING GREEK >> END >> >> I also tried ENCODING ISO-8859-7 and WINDOWS-1253. But getting symbols >> instead of letters. The closest to human readable is with encoding >> UTF-8... >> but still. >> >> I'm probably missing something here.What is the problem ? > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users