[OSM-talk] Mapnik Encoding Broken

[Raphaël Jacquot]

Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> The encoding of the name in Mapnik is broken.  You seem to
> treat UTF-8 encoded strings as iso-8859-1.  For example, the
> osamarender map of Nürnberg is still fine:
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.44787957332202&lon=11.090128019046608&zoom=13&layers=0BF
> 
> but Mapnik is bad--check the string "Fürth" nearby (page a little to the
> left):
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.44787957332202&lon=11.090128019046608&zoom=13&layers=0BF

mapnik text handling would need to use a proper shaping library such as 
pango..