[OSM-dev] utf8 rendering bug

Dave Stubbs osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk
Tue Jan 22 16:44:41 GMT 2008


2008/1/22 Xin Zheng <xin at zxv.ltd.uk>:

> Hello All,
> I believe I have found a bug with the map rendering. utf8 characters are
> not being rendered correctly.
>
> See the map below of Beijing. The city name show up as two rectangles.
>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.9&lon=116.394&zoom=10&layers=B0FT
>
>
It's not UTF8 as such, just a lack of Chinese symbols in the font Mapnik
uses.
Unfortunately Mapnik does not fall back to another font to find these
symbols.
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