[OSM-dev] chinese font missing in mapnik

[D Tucny]

On 11/07/07, Artem Pavlenko <artem at mapnik.org> wrote:
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> On 11 Jul 2007, at 12:54, Luka Frelih wrote:
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> hello!
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> mapnik does not currently have a chinese font available.
> if you look at the city node of beijing and compare with osmarender.
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.92888889999997&lon=116.38833329999999&zoom=12
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> i hope it is not too hard to install it. there is even a chinese mapping
> party coming soon.
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> This can be a font or unicode conversion problem. Which font face is used
> by osmarender ?
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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...

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