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mapbox / osm-bright

A Carto template for OpenStreetMap data
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Support arabic fonts #101

Closed amandasaurus closed 8 years ago

amandasaurus commented 9 years ago

The default fonts (Open , and DejaVu ) don't have arabic characters.

When you use them, you get unicode boxes for many placenames. osmbright

unifont does, but it also shows a character for the left-to-right mark, and hence unsuitable.

osmbright-unifont

(You can see the faint LRM at the left of each placename in this image)

By adding in the fonts that the https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/ project uses, we can get much better font coverage, with the results looking like this:

osmbright-proper-fonts

jeromegv commented 9 years ago

Had similar issue with Nepal, applying this change fixed it. Would like to see it merged

amandasaurus commented 8 years ago

Any idea if this will be merged? It would be useful to have it added?

tmcw commented 8 years ago

👍 Thanks!