[OSM-talk] Japanese place names not rendered in Mapnik

[Tom Hughes]

In message <440955.13091.qm at web27610.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
        David Ebling <dave_ebling at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but Japanese
> isn't being rendered in Mapnik properly - I am just
> seeing a rectangle for each character.
>
> eg
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.711&lon=139.869&zoom=11&layers=B0FT
>
> Anyone know what to do about this?

Yes - Talk to Artem about adding support to mapnik for fallback
fonts, or find us a font we can use instead of DejaVu which is
known to support every possible glyph for every character set.

Tom

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