kryberg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am working on a project with a client in Ukraine. The project collects near real-time data, stores it in a database, and provides the data on the Internet in graphic and tabular format. The data manipulation is done with perl. The English portion of the project works well. However, I need to make a Ukrainian equivalent. I can get the static HTML text translated and displayed and I can extract the data from the database using perl. The problem is the graph - the data is not complicated and can be graphed with something like GIFgraph (which I realize is obselete, but it’s currently available to me) - the title, legened, and axes labels need to be in Ukrainian though. From my experimentation, GIFgraph does not support the Cyrillic alphabet.

Does anyone know of a graphing program I can use in conjunction with perl to create some graphs with Cyrillic text that would be then updated at regular intervals with perl and cron jobs.?

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Re: Perl, graphing, and Cyrillic text
by Taulmarill (Deacon) on Jul 11, 2003 at 19:53 UTC
    Any module that can use True Type Fonts should be able to use Cyrillic Fonts. GD::Graph does so.

    All you need now should be a Cyrillic font. Google can be your friend here.

      Thank you very much. I do have some Cyrillic fonts. So, I'm researching that option now.