Openstreetmap-carto: OSM doesnt show me characters on the first level

[esamrui]

Expected behavior

My OSM is using Chinese characters, i have uploaded Taiwan map . After configure OSM to use Chinese characters i see themin correct way so, it is not my issue but .....

Actual behavior

Characters are being used and load ok, but when i see the map in the first zoom, i don't see the name of country or regions ( I see the typical square as when you don't use correct characters ). If i zoom until street level i'm able to see street name in Chinese without problem.

Possible Solution

I think the problem is coming form render configuration , something about zoom or load but i have just started to work with render and I'm a little bit lose :) .

[sommerluk]

Could you post a screenshot?

Are you using the website at openstreetmap.org or a an app on your smartphone that is based on OSM?

[HolgerJeromin]

Probably http://help.openstreetmap.org is the better place.

[dieterdreist]

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On 4. Sep 2018, at 17:07, esamrui [e-mail] wrote:

i don't see the name of country or regions ( I see the typical square as when you don't use correct characters ). If i zoom until street level i'm able to see street name in Chinese without problem.

I guess you are missing a font, country names is a different font than street names.

[esamrui]

I installed OSM in linux server. It will be used for other application, really it doesn't matter since when i open OSM in my browser i got same proble, i attached the picture.

[SomeoneElseOSM]

Does https://switch2osm.org/manually-building-a-tile-server-18-04-lts/ help? There's a section in there about which fonts you might want to install. The actual fonts may vary depending on the OS you're using.

[kocio-pl]

Did you look at this section of our installation guide?

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/INSTALL.md#fonts

[sommerluk]

Okay. Just to clarify some terms:

• “OSM” means “OpenStreetMap” and is the name of the geo database itself, which is available at an open license – and is also the name of the hole project creating this database.

• To actually render the data from the OSM database, you need a map style, which is a set of rules that describe which road type has which colour, which is the color of building, amenity points and so on. This Github repository is for the development of the map style that is called “openstreetmap-carto”. You can see this map style in live action when you go to http://openstreetmap.org – it is the default layer there.

Now we return to your problem: It looks like you are indeed using locally on your computer our map style “openstreetmap-carto” (or a fork of it?). However, you seem to use a very old version of “openstreetmap-carto”. Since than we have completely reworked the typography. We are now using the Noto font family to get a really wide coverage of many scripts in a visually pleasant and reliable way. For the non-latin scripts, especially in Asia, this gives much improved rendering. I would really recommend therefore that you switch to the most current version of “openstreetmap-carto”. To get a “preview”, visit https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/25.03753/121.54923 and you will see that the font rendering is much more pleasant and sharp!