[Tilesathome] Rendering Chinese (non-European) characters (was: Re: Circumvent automatic svn checking)

[Maarten Deen]

Maarten Deen wrote:
> Norbert Hoffmann wrote:
>> Maarten Deen wrote:
>> 
>>>I've uploaded until x=51, but I redid 50,28 and there are some Thai characters 
>>>in there, so I hope it's ok.
>> 
>> Look e.g. at 50,26 z6 to 51,27 in the mapnik map. They are full of chinese
>> names. The caption layer has only names of cities where the transcript in
>> latin letters were mapped).
> 
> You're right, I don't render Chinese characters there.
> 
> Anyone have any tips on how to get this fixed on Ubuntu? I tried downloading the 
> -zh language pack (language-pack-zh language-pack-zh-base) and rerendered 50,26, 
> but still no Chinese characters.

I've tried this tile on my windows XP machine, and it renders open rectangles 
where Chinese characters should go.
How do I render these non-European characters (preferably on Ubuntu)?

Regards,
Maarten