[udig-devel] Arabic Labels in the map

[Chris Holmes]

The problem is that it's in the factory.  Like it's param in the factory,
that gets passed to the DBF reader.  So it does have to be in a couple
places.  I'll find the patch, but be warned it's very out of date.  I think
it was 2.0.x

Chris

On 5/4/07, Jesse Eichar <jeichar at refractions.net> wrote:
>
> FYI,  Both share the same DBF reader so you should only have to apply it
> once.  Do you have a patch some where?
> Jesse
>
> On May 4, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Chris Holmes wrote:
>
> If it's shapefiles, then we're still hardcoding in the western character
> stuff.  I have the code to do the fix, or at least know what needs to be
> done, but I've kept waiting for indexed shapefile and shapefile to merge so
> I don't have to apply the patch in four places...
>
> Chris
>
> On 5/2/07, Jesse Eichar <jeichar at refractions.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ahmad,
> >
> > All of the rendering is done in Geotools.  The "LabelCacheDefault"
> > object is the object responsible for drawing the labels.  And
> > DBFReader in the Shapefile plugin is responsible for reading from
> > shapefiles.  Does Postgis render Arabic correctly or are all labels
> > incorrect?
> >
> > The uDig SDK RC10 comes with the Geotools source code so you can
> > probably use that to debug the problem.  If you can find a solution
> > I'd be happy to apply it.
> >
> > Jesse
> >
> >
> > On May 2, 2007, at 2:23 AM, Ahmad Al-Obaidy wrote:
> >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > UDIG doesn't render Arabic text correctly on the labels of vector
> > > layers. It render them as separate letters instead of the correct
> > > continuous (script) form.
> > >
> > > Even more, udig couldn't guess the code page of the string fields
> > > in a shape file. And it had render it in different code page in the
> > > Table View.
> > >
> > > I has already sent a sample shape file here http://
> > > jira.codehaus.org/secure/attachment/27104/region-boarders.zip
> > >
> > > I would be glad to send you screen shots as well (if it is needed).
> > >
> > > I do some Java development so I would be glad if someone showed me
> > > how to start to solve this problem.
> > >
> > > Ahmad
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