[OSM-dev] GSoC - Improving support for non-latin languages in mapnik

[Tom Hughes]

On 01/06/12 15:43, andrzej zaborowski wrote:

> On 31 May 2012 02:04, Hermann Kraus<hermr2d2 at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'd like to introduce my summer of code project "Improving support for
>> non-latin languages in mapnik"
>>
>> A complete description and a process report are available at
>> http://mapnik.org/news/2012/05/29/gsoc2012/
>>
>> I'm still looking for test cases. So if you know a place where rendering
>> goes wrong please inform me.
>
> Over on IRC a Cambodian mapper mentioned this week that the Khmer
> script isn't being rendered at all, so none of the local names render.

To be fair that is mostly because our stylesheet only uses two fonts and 
neither of them (even Unifont...) includes Khmer characters.

I suggested he open an OSM ticket to request an extra font be added but 
also pointed out that there might be other issues after that if Khmer 
needs shaping, which I subsequently determined it did.

Tom

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