[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Unusual Fonts

[Neil Fincham]

Hi all,

        I am really enjoying my first delve into mapping and like to say thanks
for the great software.

        I am havering a bit of a problem and I am sure it is something easy, I
am getting unusual fonts rendering using SDE.  It works fine with the
shape files but with SDE the text parts come out wrong.  I have attached
a sample.

Here are some bits from my mapfile;-

OUTPUTFORMAT
 NAME 'AGG'
 DRIVER AGG/PNG
 IMAGEMODE RGB
END

LAYER
  NAME LandUnit
  METADATA
    "DESCRIPTION"   "Land Unit"
    "RESULT_FIELDS" "ForestCode Description"
  END
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  CONNECTIONTYPE PLUGIN
  PLUGIN "/ms4w/Apache/specialplugins/msplugin_sde_92.dll"
  CONNECTION "palustris,port:5155,d,ms_user,p4ss\/\/ord"
  DATA "d.DBO.LandUnit,SHAPE,SDE.DEFAULT"
  TOLERANCE 5
  TEMPLATE "ttt_query.html"
  CLASS
    SYMBOL 0
    COLOR 255 255 255
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
    TEXT ([SpeciesLabel] [YOE] [AreaHA]ha)
    LABEL
      FONT "vera"
      TYPE truetype
      SIZE 8
      BUFFER 1
      COLOR 0 0 0
      BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255
      WRAP " "
      ENCODING UTF-16
    END
  END
END # Layer

        The [SpeciesLabel] is the one with the problem, the "[YOE] [AreaHA]ha"
are numbers and render correctly.  I have tried various ENCODING types
to no avail.

Thanks for your time

Neil

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