Rendering arabic language

[Maveric79]

Hi All.

I've tried render map of Egypt and i have boxes in some places instead characters.

link to map: egypt

Any ideas?

[sjoerd222888]

I don't see boxes on your map. Have you fixed the issue already?

[Maveric79]

Unfortunately I have not fixed this issue.
You can see boxes an image below.

Thanks in advance.

[erikj]

This is likely a font-package issue, but a first pass @ Google search results indicates that the image seems to be doing the most obvious things that it should: installing the ttf-unifont package and configuring it in font-settings.xml.inc, e.g.

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/35314/local-osm-server-localized-names-show-as-boxes

[Maveric79]

Thank you, erikj.

This link was first that I found. I check image. This image already have ttf-unifont package and correct font-settings.xml.inc

<!--Settings for Mapnik Fonts
To see the fonts you have installed with Mapnik do:
ls `python -c "import mapnik;print mapnik.fontscollectionpath"`-->

<FontSet name="book-fonts">
  <Font face-name="DejaVu Sans Book" />
  <Font face-name="unifont Medium" />
</FontSet>
<FontSet name="bold-fonts">
  <Font face-name="DejaVu Sans Bold" />
  <Font face-name="unifont Medium" />
</FontSet>
<FontSet name="oblique-fonts">
  <Font face-name="DejaVu Sans Oblique" />
  <Font face-name="unifont Medium" />
</FontSet>

May be changing position tags "Font" will help

[sjoerd222888]

In the webbrowser on the website you provided I can zoom into the map and everything looks fine.
How are you rendering the HTML? Are you using an embedded browser? Maybe there are some configuration issues, missing fonts there?

Maybe I also misunderstand, but I thought when this little preview map looks fine, it would mean it works in principal, doesn't it?

[Maveric79]

Hi, sjoerd222888.

Image that I showed in previous post was displayedin application osgearth_view (tiles was rendered inside image) . Do you not see boxes on that image ?

[sjoerd222888]

Of course I see the image but I did not know how it was rendered, now I know. I wrote my comment because I saw similar issues where it was related to issues with web-view used for rendering. Where I did not see blocks was on the link you posted initially. I kinda expected to also see the blocks there. Hope this explains the motivation for my previous comments.