Re: Incorrect Arabic text rendering in maperver
"Ian Walberg" <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:53:29 -0500
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As requested here are the images of the problem we are seeing and the text string that is not working. This is UniversOTOArabic :- http://i52.tinypic.com/156s5ea.jpg This is ArialUni :- http://i54.tinypic.com/25ouses.jpg This is andale and as far as we can tell is correct :- http://i53.tinypic.com/hx56kn.jpg And in English :- http://i54.tinypic.com/i1jkmb.jpg arabic.htm has the Arabic text for Alexandria in it. Arabic Issues 01.xls has the English and Arabic for Alexandria. Thanks Ian From: Ian Walberg Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 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 _______________________________________________ fribidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fribidi
arabic.htm
(text/html, 248 B)
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body{text-align:center; margin-top: 200px; font-family:"Arabic OTS Univers","Univers OTS",sans-serif;font-size:146px;direction:rtl;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
الأسكندرية
</body>
</html>
Arabic_Issue_01.xls
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