[OSM-dev] chinese font missing in mapnik

Artem Pavlenko artem at mapnik.org
Wed Jul 11 15:56:55 BST 2007


On 11 Jul 2007, at 15:19, D Tucny wrote:

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

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  - [][]


Artem Pavlenko
http://mapnik.org



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