JPGraph does not display german Umlaute

[josef53]

Hi,
thank you for manits! It's really great stuff - download - install - run a very good experience.
However I found one things I could not figure out.
I am using mantis 1.1.0a2 and JPGraph and german language basically with no problems. Only in the charts the german umlaute are display as double characters, probably unicode?
How can I fix that?
Josef

[gerb42]

Hi Josef,

we had similar Problems but managed to solve this by compiling libgd without JIS Support. Also make sure not to use the default Fonts. Use a TrueType Font instead.

Gerd.

[josef53]

Hi Josef,

we had similar Problems but managed to solve this by compiling libgd without JIS Support. Also make sure not to use the default Fonts. Use a TrueType Font instead.

Gerd.

Hi Gerd,

thanx for that hint. libdg sounds LINUX but I am WinXP with XAMPP. Actually I avoid to compile this type of things, as I suspect it would take me ages to get it done. And, having no proper german umlaute can be suvived without pain.

Josef

[gerb42]

Hi Josef,

if you are on WinXP then it should be the Font issue. Make sure to use a TrueType Font (Arial or Tahoma or whatever). Umlauts should be displayed then. I don't recall the setting at the moment but it definitely is a config thing.

Edit:
our Settings are:
in config_inc.php:

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$g_graph_font = 'vera';

in jpg-config.inc.php:

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DEFINE("TTF_DIR",'C:\\Windows\\fonts\\');
DEFINE("MBTTF_DIR",'C:\\Windows\\fonts\\');

[stefang]

Hi Josef et all,

The 'vera' font does not exist on a standard default installation of windows xp or windows 2000.
You might have to specify a different font that is available on your windows system by default, like 'arial'.
Please note that additionally a font with the "bd" (for bold) postfix must exist as well, what actually does for arial (arialbd.ttf).

I've tested it and it works, thanks for the work around.

[deboutv]

This is a bug that I have reported:

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=7937

Download and install the attached file.

[honigferd]

Edit:
our Settings are:
in config_inc.php:

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$g_graph_font = 'vera';

in jpg-config.inc.php:

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DEFINE("TTF_DIR",'C:\\Windows\\fonts\\');
DEFINE("MBTTF_DIR",'C:\\Windows\\fonts\\');

This worked fine for me after I downloaded the Vera Fonts from http://www.gnome.org/fonts/