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

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 11 Feb 2008, at 08:55, Tom Hughes wrote:

> 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

And Chinese!  "Well known feature" TM
>>
>> 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.


Yes, talk to me:)

David, would you mind submitting ticket to trac.mapnik.org and I'll  
make sure it's implemented asap.
cheers
Artem
>
> Tom
>
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