[OSM-talk] indic fonts in mapnik, JOSM and Potlatch

[Richard Fairhurst]

Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> I have been searching for a way to render indic fonts in OSM/mapnik
> for some months and have posted here and elsewhere without result.
> Today I discovered something called GNU unifont which has glyphs for
> all known languages. Apparently this is used in the official
> OSM/Mapnik renderer. Anyway I compiled mapnik with support for this
> font, and am able to render all languages. If some kind soul could
> compile support for this in JOSM and Potlatch, it would be of extreme
> help to us - currently all we see is little boxes when entering 
> text.

Potlatch (via Flash Player) just uses your system fonts. If they're
correctly installed on your system, and Flash Player knows they're there,
Potlatch will use them.

cheers
Richard
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