Fusion 2 and Cyrillic

[akotsev]

Dear colleagues,
I decided to write to the mailing list because I have been suffering in
changing the interface to Cyrillic for over a week. What I need is to be
able to display in Cyrillic is:
1) Elements of the interface – I have already some partial results with
tooltips and certain elements of the interface after editing strings.json,
but haven’t unfortunately succeeded with Labels in the
ApplicationDefinition.xml (see how it appears for the Help button on the
link below)
2) Search from query of several shapefiles in Cyrillic (some fields
contain Cyrillic letters). Apache telling the browser what encoding to use
would probably do this, however I have only succeeded viewing the
attribute content after manually changing the browser encoding to cp-1251
(Windows Cyrillic encoding).
3) Layer names – I need the names of the layers to display in Cyrillic and
what happens is that after changing the NAME in the .MAP file I am able to
see them in the Fusion legend but the geographic content won’t display at
all.
I would be very grateful for any answers concerning the questions above. I
am using Fusion 2 beta and mapserver 5.2.2 on a FC9 Linux machine with
everything working excellent while using it in English. An example is
available at http://62.44.114.108/gis1

Any help is much appreciated.

Alexander Kotsev,
GIS department, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Bulgaria
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[Paul Spencer-2]

Hi Alexander,

I'm not an expert or even a novice really in displaying alternate  
charsets in web browsers, but I think you need to specify something in  
a meta tag somewhere to tell the browser to use a different encoding  
(try http://bit.ly/v9XLM perhaps).

I believe there is also some way of specifying encoding in mapserver  
but I cannot recall what it is - you probably should ask about that on  
the mapserver-users list.

We'll help with any code changes that are required to generate  
alternate charset output from fusion php scripts and I would really  
appreciate feedback from your efforts on this list so others can learn  
from your experience.

Cheers

Paul

On 8-Jul-09, at 7:03 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> I decided to write to the mailing list because I have been suffering  
> in
> changing the interface to Cyrillic for over a week. What I need is  
> to be
> able to display in Cyrillic is:
> 1) Elements of the interface – I have already some partial results  
> with
> tooltips and certain elements of the interface after editing  
> strings.json,
> but haven’t unfortunately succeeded with Labels in the
> ApplicationDefinition.xml (see how it appears for the Help button on  
> the
> link below)
> 2) Search from query of several shapefiles in Cyrillic (some fields
> contain Cyrillic letters). Apache telling the browser what encoding  
> to use
> would probably do this, however I have only succeeded viewing the
> attribute content after manually changing the browser encoding to  
> cp-1251
> (Windows Cyrillic encoding).
> 3) Layer names – I need the names of the layers to display in  
> Cyrillic and
> what happens is that after changing the NAME in the .MAP file I am  
> able to
> see them in the Fusion legend but the geographic content won’t  
> display at
> all.
> I would be very grateful for any answers concerning the questions  
> above. I
> am using Fusion 2 beta and mapserver 5.2.2 on a FC9 Linux machine with
> everything working excellent while using it in English. An example is
> available at http://62.44.114.108/gis1
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Alexander Kotsev,
> GIS department, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
> Bulgaria
> _______________________________________________
> fusion-users mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/fusion-users

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[Paul Spencer-2]

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From: Stefan Dalakov <[hidden email]>

Date: July 8, 2009 1:23:01 PM GMT-04:00

To: [hidden email]

Subject: Re: [fusion-users] Fusion 2 and Cyrillic

Hi Alexander,

1) It seems to me, that after editing the ApplicationDefinition.xml, the file was not saved with utf-8 encoding
2) The set of shp files can contain a .cpg  file, which specifies the code page. Some people claim that this works with MapGuide, perhaps also with mapserver. You can give it a try

Good luck
Stefan Dalakov


Paul Spencer wrote:

Hi Alexander,

I'm not an expert or even a novice really in displaying alternate charsets in web browsers, but I think you need to specify something in a meta tag somewhere to tell the browser to use a different encoding (try http://bit.ly/v9XLM perhaps).

I believe there is also some way of specifying encoding in mapserver but I cannot recall what it is - you probably should ask about that on the mapserver-users list.

We'll help with any code changes that are required to generate alternate charset output from fusion php scripts and I would really appreciate feedback from your efforts on this list so others can learn from your experience.

Cheers

Paul

On 8-Jul-09, at 7:03 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I decided to write to the mailing list because I have been suffering in

changing the interface to Cyrillic for over a week. What I need is to be

able to display in Cyrillic is:

1)    Elements of the interface – I have already some partial results with

tooltips and certain elements of the interface after editing strings.json,

but haven’t unfortunately succeeded with Labels in the

ApplicationDefinition.xml (see how it appears for the Help button on the

link below)

2)    Search from query of several shapefiles in Cyrillic (some fields

contain Cyrillic letters). Apache telling the browser what encoding to use

would probably do this, however I have only succeeded viewing the

attribute content after manually changing the browser encoding to cp-1251

(Windows Cyrillic encoding).

3)    Layer names – I need the names of the layers to display in Cyrillic and

what happens is that after changing the NAME in the .MAP file I am able to

see them in the Fusion legend but the geographic content won’t display at

all.

I would be very grateful for any answers concerning the questions above. I

am using Fusion 2 beta and mapserver 5.2.2 on a FC9 Linux machine with

everything working excellent while using it in English. An example is

available at http://62.44.114.108/gis1

Any help is much appreciated.

Alexander Kotsev,

GIS department, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Bulgaria

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  Paul Spencer

  Chief Technology Officer

  DM Solutions Group Inc

  http://research.dmsolutions.ca/

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   Chief Technology Officer

   DM Solutions Group Inc

   http://research.dmsolutions.ca/

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