[OSM-dev] Non-latin fonts on the slippy map

[Grant Slater]

>> The mapnik renderer on the slippy map appears to not have a font for
>> simplified Chinese available... it's appearing as squares. The same is
>> true for Arabic... and I'm guessing Thai too.
>>
>> There seem to be people starting to actually do mapping in these
>> languages, so it might be a nice idea to install the extra language
>> packs needed on the render box (assuming it's that simple, but it all
>> works fine in JOSM on my Ubuntu box so it might be).
>>     
>
> Can you give us a little bit more hints which are the ubuntu/debian Packages 
> for these languages?
>   

I think DejaVu Sans has the best unicode coverage.

debian package: ttf-dejavu

Regards
 Grant