[udig-devel] Arabic Labels in the map

[Chris Holmes]

Ok, I just found the old issue and attached the patch to it.  It 
probably won't apply directly.  See: 
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-253

The patch was just generated by doing svn diff -r 9406:9407 on the 2.0.x 
branch.  I apologize I never got it properly moved across, when I was up 
for it the indexed shapefile had already been forked.

Also does uDig only used indexed-shapefile right now?  Is there some way 
to easily move them to the same module?  Even if only on trunk?

Chris

Chris Holmes wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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
>>         <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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