Ticket #112 (new enhancement)
Support for Indic OpenType Font rendering with ICU 'Shaping'
| Reported by: | springmeyer | Owned by: | artem |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.0.0 |
| Component: | Core Library | Version: | SVN Trunk |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | OpenType, Freetype, fonts, unicode |
| Cc: | Patch Needs Improvement: | no | |
| Needs Docmentation: | no | Has Patch?: | no |
| Design Decision Needed: | no |
Description
Arabic font rendering with ICU is clearly supported, as I can see the routines here:
http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/include/mapnik/font_engine_freetype.hpp#L257 and the news here: http://mapnik.org/news/2008/feb/20/mapnik_unicode/
Indic font rendering apparently needs its own special routines which are discussed in the context of OpenType? fonts here:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2591
Context: when gargi.ttf is configured based on this readme: http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tutorials/fonts/using_alternative_fonts.txt the result is the same as the graphics attached to the mapserver ticket.
Thus, enhanced support for OpenType? Indic fonts is highly desirable within Mapnik.
