[OSM-dev] mapnik map and Arabic names

[Raphaël Jacquot]

Artem Pavlenko a écrit :
> AGG is nothing to do with text rendering in Mapnik. It uses Freetype2.
> 

ah, my bad, you're using freetype directly... no wonder

> If fribidi doesn't work there is another option is to use ICU which
> claims to have BIDI. shaping etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Artem

using Pango for text would give you a slew of languages, and even allows
text on a curve if I'm not mistaken

see here for the docs

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/