[OSM-dev] Mapnik, Japanese characters?

[marqqs at gmx.eu]

Hi AJ,

thanks for your help!

I added Unifonts as fallback and now everything is fine. :-)

<FontSet name="book-fonts">
  <Font face_name="DejaVu Sans Book" />
  <Font face_name="unifont Medium" />
</FontSet>

Markus

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:47:12 -0400
> Von: AJ Ashton <aj.ashton at gmail.com>
> An: dev at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [OSM-dev] Mapnik, Japanese characters?

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:23 AM,  <marqqs at gmx.eu> wrote:
> > I'm using Mapnik to render a thematic map. Latin and Cyrillic characters
> are displayed properly but Japanese are not:
> > http://openptmap.org/?zoom=14&lat=35.68025&lon=139.76767&layers=0000BTFT
> 
> Does your stylesheet use a font that supports Japanese characters? If
> not you should find a font that does and set it as a fallback using
> Mapnik's fontset feature [1].
> 
> If it's not a problem with your font, likely the character encoding is
> set incorrectly in the database, or is being set incorrectly somewhere
> in the rendering pipeline. You should check that the database was
> imported as UTF-8, and that the encoding is not being set to something
> else in the Mapnik XML.
> 
> [1]: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/FontSet
> 
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