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<p>I have noticed a different rendering with Mapnik when using arabic tag names for linear ways and closed ways</p>
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<p>example see here</p>
<p>http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=33.89622&lon=35.48974&zoom=17</p>
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<p>there is a green area and an Hospital</p>
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<p>both are tagged </p>
<p>name:en Sanayeh Parc</p>
<p>name: حديقة الصنايع</p>
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<p>for the green park</p>
<p>and</p>
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<p>name:en=American University Hospital</p>
<p>name=مستشفى الجامعة الأمريكية</p>
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<p>around them are normal street tagging e.g. rendered correctly in arabic</p>
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<p>now the problem is that for those and many other closed areas like buildings, parcs , industry zones etc.. the rendering of arabic is reversed like this</p>
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<p>if it is tagged مستشفى الجامعة الأمريكية = American University Hospital in Potlatch then it is rendered on a multiline in the other direction (from left to right ) and thus it is rendered</p>
<p>الأمريكية</p>
<p>الجامعة</p>
<p>مستشفى</p>
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<p>and the tag : حديقة الصنايع</p>
<p>is rendered</p>
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<p>الصنايع</p>
<p>حديقة</p>
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<p>is it a problem that somebody can fix ?</p>
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<p>Thanks</p>
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