[OSM-dev] no hebrew letters in mapnik layer

Jon Burgess jburgess777 at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 7 22:13:36 BST 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:17 +0200, Tal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the right list for this question. Sorry if
> it's not.
> 
> Why are there no Hebrew letters displayed in mapnik layer of the osm
> site?
> 
> 1) a link to osmarender layer with some streets with Hebrew names:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.32298&lon=34.85931&zoom=16&layers=0B00FFF
> 
> 2) a link to the same place, but rendered by mapnik:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.32298&lon=34.85931&zoom=16&layers=B000FFF
> Note that the map doesn't show the street names.

How does the attached tile look to you?

The problem is that Mapnik does not handle non-Arabic right-to-left
strings. I used that attached patch to generate this tile. If you say
the output looks OK then I'll forward to the Mapnik developers and apply
it on the OSM tile server.

	Jon


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