[OSM-dev] no hebrew letters in mapnik layer

[Jon Burgess]

I updated the server before the planet update today so those tile are
all being rendered now.

  Jon

2008/10/8 Tal <tal.bav at gmail.com>:
> You're a magician,
> the attached tile looks perfect!
> It would be great to have the mapnik layer generated that way.
>
> Tal
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>



-- 
    Jon