[Talk-in] Indic rendering

[Sajjad Anwar]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Vardhan
>
> Different issue from CJK characters.

>
> "I believe the underlying issue here is that Mapnik is rendering the string
> one character at a time in order to make the characters follow along the
> path. These Indic languages use ligatures where the rendering depends on
> multi-character sequences and can not be correctly rendered one character at
> a time,"
>
> https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/112#issuecomment-2365351

Let me take this problem to the Indic language computing community and
find out what can be done.

>
> Mikel
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
> ________________________________
> From: Vardhan Naik <vardhan.naik at dsrede.in>
> To: cartonama-workshop at googlegroups.com
> Cc: "talk-in at openstreetmap.org" <talk-in at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Indic rendering
>
> Hi Mikel,
>
> Am not a Map person.. but found this for chinese. is that we miss the ttf
> file or so? on the server?
>
> Optional: CJK font fallback support
>
> Currently, mapnik includes a font to support CJK characters (Chinese,
> Japanese, Korean, et. al. or more generally East Asia). To add support you
> need to open the file inc/fontset-settings.xml.inc and uncomment the lines
> that have "unifont Medium".
> Older mapnik versions did not have unifont included. There you need to:
>
> Download the GNU Unifont Glyphs
> Unpack and put the ttf file in your /usr/local/lib/mapnik/fonts (or
> appropriate path) directory with the other Mapnik fonts.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> During the cartonama workshop, we discovered that Mapnik still has issues
> with rendering Indic fonts.
>
> http://tiles.mapbox.com/groundtruth/map/map-busd5lm5
>
> It's a known issue.
>
> https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/112
>
> Artem has looked into a bit, but hasn't proceeded that far. Anyone
> knowledgeable in handling Indic fonts that might be able to advise?
>
> -Mikel
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
>
>
>
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