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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Cartoweb is only a wrapper around Mapserver, meaning if
Mapserver can not handle the language you want, Cartoweb will not solve
Mapserver problem.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>About the interface part, Cartoweb use gettext. As far as I
know, gettext support most if not all languages, even right to left and special
joined letters. Im am not a specialist of Gettext so I can only advice you to
consult Gettext documentation or related forum for more
informations.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>By default, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 are supported in
Cartoweb, if needed implementing other encoding is possible with some
programmation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>There is a limitation with the PDF export because of the FPDF
library used, it only support ISO-8859-1 at the moment (though we are looking at
improving that in the next version of Cartoweb).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Oliver</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=srph124@yahoo.com href="mailto:srph124@yahoo.com">Saka Royban</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 04, 2008 4:23
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Cartoweb-users] Newbie:
Arabic-Farsi- Hebrew support?</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi all.<BR>I'm new to Mapserver and cartoweb. I want to know if cartoweb
is able to handle Arabic-Farsi(Persian) and Hebrew correctly (using gettext).
In these languages letter join to each other to form a word not like others
which letters are separate with no problem. also they are written right to
left not left to right. This is an important point for labeling. I don't know
a lot about gettext and reading cartoweb manual, sounds it should be done via
gettext. Mapserver itself sounds have problem in joining letters.<BR>in using
Cartoweb for me this is very critical.<BR>Thanks in
advance<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>
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