[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering in China broken?

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> It seems that the rendering of chinese characters in Mapnik is broken. Every
> character is just rendered as an empty square, which indicates to me that
> some font is missing on the rendering server.  Here is an example:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=26.53&lon=118.33&zoom=7&layers=B0FT

AIUI Mapnik does not understand fallback fonts so it needs one font
that supports all the characters at once and that doesn't exist,
apparently.

Two solutions: (a) make such a font or (b) fix Mapnik to understand
fallback fonts. I don't have the knowledgel for either and no-one else
has stepped up to the plate either :( Maybe one day it will bug me
enough that I'll just start typing random C++ and hope it starts
working.

> Greetings from the Marble people!

Nice work BTW, very nice screenshots.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/