[OSM-dev] Indic fonts on OSM tiles

[Tom Hughes]

On 06/10/15 16:42, Anish Mangal wrote:

> I was trying to generate map tiles in Hindi language and I noticed that
> the rendering of names of a few places is off, perhaps due to the font
> chosen.
>
> I tried with two fonts:
> 'gargi', which is the manilk default (i think) for devanagari
> 'lohit', another font which is freely available and widely used.
>
> In both cases, the rendering was off.
>
> Correct rendering (example): http://picpaste.com/delhi_good-gDYODgsB.png
> Incorrect rendering (example):
> http://picpaste.com/new_delhi_bad-NM9l7Dg2.png
>
> The name of the place in the above pictures: (New) Delhi
>
> Any pointers on how to fix this?

Upgrade to mapnik 3.

Tom

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