[OSM-dev] chinese font missing in mapnik

D Tucny d at tucny.com
Wed Jul 11 16:06:32 BST 2007


On 11/07/07, Artem Pavlenko <artem at mapnik.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 11 Jul 2007, at 15:19, D Tucny wrote:
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> 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  - [][]
>

Have a look at this page...

http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/chinesefonts/

Zhong Yi Song looks good...

d
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