Incorrect Arabic text rendering in maperver

Hello list and Happy New Year,

 

I have posted this on the mapserver list and our current assumption is
this is an issue related to fribidi and the font we are using.

 

We are seeing incorrectly rendered Arabic text, typically a 'square'
displayed instead of one of the characters or sometimes one or more
characters missing.

 

The data is coming from shape files and most the names appear to be
displayed correctly.

 

This is being seen on both ms4w and the target Linux installation.

 

Any idea where to look would be greatly appreciated. Is the 'square'
character what Freetype displays if it cannot find a character in the
font.

 

Specifically we get the issue with the Arabic text for the city
Alexandria (in Egypt) with the font UniversOTSArabic.ttf and
ArialUni.ttf. Andaltewt.ttf works ok.

 

Many thanks

 

Ian

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