[OSM-dev] mapnik map and Arabic names

[Artem Pavlenko]

Hi Allio,

On 23 Mar 2007, at 14:18, Alilo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On the mapnik map, the arabic letters are not connected. which is  
> not correct in arabic.
> mapnik arabic: http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? 
> lat=33.997890200140446&lon=-6.8455796898306565&zoom=16
>
>
> I thought in an earlier thread http://lists.openstreetmap.org/ 
> pipermail/talk/2007-January/010816.html that the problem was from  
> the dejavu fonts but dejavu fonts render arabic correctly.

Yes, dejavu fonts are fine.
>
> Is it possible that this is happening because mapnik is rendering  
> names letter by letter and not taking the complete word?
>

The reason is that BIDI algorithm in fribidi library doesn't support  
'shaping' ( at least by default). I'll investigate further and let  
you know.


> Is it because of the process that converts osm -> postgis -> mapnik .?
>

No.

Thanks for reminding me about it. It would be great if you could  
submit a ticket on trac.mapnik.org so it won't get lost

Cheers
Artem


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