mapserver how to get rid of unknown character from label

Question

I am developing a gis system using mapserver and open scales library. GIS data is taken from a shape file. When i try to show the name attached to a place its showing unknown characters (not in english) along with its name in english. here is my .map file settings

 LAYER
   NAME city
   TYPE POINT
   STATUS ON      
   LABELITEM 'NAME'         
   MAXSCALE 7500000
  DATA "ndia_location.shp"   

 CLASS
   EXPRESSION ( '[PLACE]'=='city' )

    LABEL           
            COLOR 0 0 0
            TYPE BITMAP
            SIZE SMALL          
            POSITION CC
        #MINFEATURESIZE 100
        ENCODING UTF-8
            PARTIALS FALSE
        BUFFER 0
        END
      END

Is there a way to show only English name for the label. I have tried with openlayers javascript library also.

Answer 1

For labeling you should use appropriate font which contained needed characters.

Create fonts.list file with the simmilar content:

# This be the fonts list
arial    arial.ttf
tahoma   tahoma.ttf
symbols  symbols.ttf

and put described fonts in the same directory. In MAP section of mapfile points to fonts.list:

MAP    
    FONTSET     "fonts/fonts.list"

And in LABEL section set needed font:

LABEL
        FONT "tahoma"
        TYPE TRUETYPE