[FriBidi] Incorrect Arabic text rendering in maperver

[Ian Walberg]

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: fribidi at lists.freedesktop.org
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

 

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