{"comment":{"created_at":"2011-10-11T15:57:36Z","body":"[springmeyer] fyi, make sure to see Tom's comment on ICU and Shaping: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/mapnik-devel/2010-September/001245.html","updated_at":"2011-10-11T15:57:36Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/artemp/mapnik/issues/comments/2365353","id":2365353,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/941f68386168a8a6b60f2529a7830af7?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/artemp","id":59056,"login":"artemp"}},"action":"created","issue":{"number":112,"created_at":"2011-10-11T15:57:30Z","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"patch_url":null,"html_url":null},"body":"Arabic font rendering with ICU is clearly supported, as I can see the routines here:\r\n\r\nhttp://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/include/mapnik/font_engine_freetype.hpp#L257\r\nand the news here:\r\nhttp://mapnik.org/news/2008/feb/20/mapnik_unicode/\r\n\r\nIndic font rendering apparently needs its own special routines which are discussed in the context of OpenType fonts here:\r\n\r\nhttp://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2591\r\n\r\nContext: when gargi.ttf is configured based on this readme:\r\nhttp://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/example_code/fonts/README.txt\r\nthe result is the same as the graphics attached to the mapserver ticket.\r\n\r\nThus, enhanced support for OpenType Indic fonts is highly desirable within Mapnik.","comments":9,"title":"Support for Indic OpenType Font rendering with ICU 'Shaping'","updated_at":"2011-10-11T15:57:36Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/artemp/mapnik/issues/112","id":1877109,"assignee":null,"milestone":{"number":2,"created_at":"2011-10-11T15:50:19Z","due_on":null,"title":"Future","creator":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/941f68386168a8a6b60f2529a7830af7?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/artemp","id":59056,"login":"artemp"},"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/artemp/mapnik/milestones/2","open_issues":12,"closed_issues":0,"description":"Tickets without a proper milestone: either because they are unsorted and unreviewed or because developers do not see capacity to work on them before a planned release.\r\n\r\nThis group should be periodically reviewed and plucked by developers to be included in other milestones if feasible to work on.","state":"open"},"closed_at":null,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/941f68386168a8a6b60f2529a7830af7?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/artemp","id":59056,"login":"artemp"},"html_url":"https://github.com/artemp/mapnik/issues/112","labels":[{"name":"Core_Library","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/artemp/mapnik/labels/Core_Library","color":"FFFFFF"}],"state":"open"},"legacy":{"issue_id":1877109,"comment_id":2365353}}