[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Non-latin fonts on the slippy map

[Alilo Alilo]

Hi,

The Arabic letters are correct, and ordered correctly from right to left but
they are not connected together.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_writing

Most of the letters connect directly to the letter which immediately
follows, which gives written text an overall cursive appearance. Each
individual letter can have up to four distinct forms, based upon where the
letter appears in a word ...

Here is how I entered that data on JOSM

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Arabic_letters_JOSM.JPG

I don't know why you see the letters on isolated form, may the font does not
include the connected form, may be changing the font?

I don't know from where mapnik should get the intelligence to connect arabic
letters and order them from right to left, maybe from the operating system?

Let me know if you need help, I am arabic.


On 1/31/07, Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert at sxpert.org> wrote:
>
> Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> > Hello lists,
> >
> > I was playing with DejaVu fonts family and we should definitely use them
> for
> > OSM rendering.
> >
> > Also, mapnik can support right-to-left languages e.g. arabic :
> > http://media.mapnik.org/a.jpg .
> >
> > Can anyone confirm it is correct ?
>
> I can't read it, but it looks like correct arabic text
>
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