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Tileserver does not show Asian characters

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(converted from a question comment in a different thread about tile server setup)

after setting up whole of it now at places like china it shows places names as empty boxes only. What will be fix for it?

asked 14 Jul '17, 12:03

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converted 14 Jul '17, 12:10

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The openstreetmap-carto style uses a large number of different fonts to cover characters outside of the Latin-1 range. Check if you have installed them all (you'll see warnings in your log file about missing fonts). A simple cure is installing the "unifont" TrueType font which will likely offer at least some usable symbol for every character.

answered 14 Jul '17, 12:12

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Source code available on GitHub .