[FriBidi] Incorrect Arabic text rendering in maperver

[Behdad Esfahbod]

And how are you calling FriBidi exactly?

On 01/15/11 11:53, Ian Walberg wrote:
> As requested here are the images of the problem we are seeing and the text
> string that is not working.
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> This is UniversOTOArabic:- http://i52.tinypic.com/156s5ea.jpg
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> This is ArialUni :- http://i54.tinypic.com/25ouses.jpg
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> This is andale and as far as we can tell is correct
> :-http://i53.tinypic.com/hx56kn.jpg
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> And in English :- http://i54.tinypic.com/i1jkmb.jpg
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> arabic.htm has the Arabic text for Alexandria in it.
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> Arabic Issues 01.xls has the English and Arabic for Alexandria.
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> Thanks
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> Ian
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> *From:*Ian Walberg
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:02 PM
> *To:* fribidi at lists.freedesktop.org
> *Subject:* Incorrect Arabic text rendering in maperver
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> Hello list and Happy New Year,
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> 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.
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> We are seeing incorrectly rendered Arabic text, typically a 'square' displayed
> instead of one of the characters or sometimes one or more characters missing.
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> The data is coming from shape files and most the names appear to be displayed
> correctly.
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> This is being seen on both ms4w and the target Linux installation.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Many thanks
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> Ian
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