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<DIV>you mean you have set Encoding 'UTF-8' with using an arabic font under label object?</DIV>
<DIV>i have tested the same conf but no result.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com><BR>To: ms4w <ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org><BR>Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 7:50:15 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [ms4w-users] problem with using Arabic language again!!!<BR><BR>I have myself recently tested Arabic fonts in MS4W successfully...but <BR>since I don't know Arabic I am not 100% sure about the details that you <BR>mentioned. From reading your message it seems that there have been <BR>improvements with the latest MS4W with the fribidi2 library...maybe you <BR>should give your feedback (with screengrabs and mapfile snippets) on the <BR>mapserver-dev mailing list for the developers. Also include screengrabs <BR>of the correct view of the text for the developers.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Jeff McKenna<BR>FOSS4G Consulting and Training Services<BR><A href="http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/"
target=_blank>http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>Saka Royban wrote:<BR>> Hi all.<BR>> According to what History.txt for MS4W2.2.8 says, problem for arabic <BR>> and hebrew languages has been solved by using UTF8. But i couldn't get a <BR>> good result.<BR>> In fact, UTF8 doesn't show letters correctly (just some symbols). i have <BR>> tried lots of fonts but the same result.<BR>> in current version, the problem of joining letters have been solved <BR>> because i can get result using 'ISO8859-6' encoding which is for arabic <BR>> but now this encoding changes some of letters with each other.<BR>> In last version, 'Windows-1256' encoding (for arabic) worked well for <BR>> showing letters just they were separate not joint. but in cuurent <BR>> versions this encoding just shows some symbols.<BR>> I'm confused. maybe i should setup sth which i don't do or i don't know <BR>> sth else.<BR>>
that would be my appreciate to help me because it is really a need. Maps <BR>> without labels have less usage.<BR>> Thanks in advance<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>ms4w-users mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org" ymailto="mailto:ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org">ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users" target=_blank>http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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