[OSM-dev] Indic fonts on OSM tiles

[Anish Mangal]

Took a bit of effort to compile both mapnik3 and mod_tile from source, but
that fixed it!

Thanks a bunch :)

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
> http://compton.nu/
>
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