[OSM-newbies] Foreign language rendering

[Claudius Henrichs]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie:
> Robert Helvie schrieb:
>
>> But my question ... Mapnik does render the Hangul. It is barely legible, but
>> it is there. However, Osmarender doesn't seem to display the Korean script.
>> Is this a fault of my tagging, or is Osmarender not capable of dealing with
>> Asian character sets yet?
>
> Osmarender should be well capable of handling those. The main problem
> is, that the osmarender layer is generated by the distributed tiles at home
> project, and wether or not some non-latin characters are rendered
> depends on the fonts installed on the computer that's rendering the tile.
> Unfortunately finding a reliable way to check for fonts cross-platform
> is A Hard Problem.

Maybe you can at least add a hint on the osmarender wiki-page to have 
this and those fonts installed on the machine. Even if only every fourht 
user actually reads the page it would potentially mean more tiles being 
rendered correctly.

Regards,
Claudius