On 11/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Artem Pavlenko</b> <<a href="mailto:artem@mapnik.org">artem@mapnik.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div><span class="e" id="q_113b5c8d66601b7c_1"><br><div><div>On 11 Jul 2007, at 15:19, D Tucny wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">On 11/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Artem Pavlenko</b> <<a href="mailto:artem@mapnik.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
artem@mapnik.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><br><div><span><div>
On 11 Jul 2007, at 12:54, Luka Frelih wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">hello!</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"> mapnik does not currently have a chinese font available.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">if you look at the city node of beijing and compare with osmarender.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.92888889999997&lon=116.38833329999999&zoom=12" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.92888889999997&lon=116.38833329999999&zoom=12</a><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">i hope it is not too hard to install it. there is even a chinese mapping
<span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">party coming soon.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></span>This can be a font or unicode conversion problem. Which font face is used by osmarender ?
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>it uses deja vu/sans, but there is are no chinese glyphs in dejavu so inkscape falls back to another sans font, if present, that has chinese glyphs, half the tiles at home renders don't have any fonts capable of rendering chinese either so they typically will render garbage, or more commonly, nothing...
<br></div><br>d<br></div></blockquote><br></div></span></div>Thanks for the info. We need some free fonts with better unicode coverage, then. Any ideas? I tried RH Liberation fonts with the same result - [][] </div></blockquote>
<div><br>Have a look at this page...<br><br><a href="http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/chinesefonts/">http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/chinesefonts/</a> <br><br>Zhong Yi Song looks good... <br><br>d <br></div><br></div>