[OSM-talk] Mapnik Encoding Broken

[Bruce Cowan]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 13:38 +0200, Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
> 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 Nrnberg is still fine:
> > 
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.44787957332202&lon=11.090128019046608&zoom=13&layers=0BF
> > 
> > but Mapnik is bad--check the string "Frth" 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..
> 
The broken tiles were rendered yesterday, so this would be caused by the
broken planet dump. For instance, zoom level 10 and 14 are fine as they
were rendered before yesterday.

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Bruce Cowan <lists at bcowan.fastmail.co.uk>