Re: imagettftext function does not handle combining character properly

That's done in Freetype. First thing I would try would be upgrading to GD2/Freetype2 and see if it is handled better with that combination. -Rasmus On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ziying Sherwin wrote: > > We installed php 4.2.2 with freetype 1.3.1 on our solaris 2.8 machine. We > are using function imagettftext to convert UTF8 string to image file for > Internet display. However, it seems that this function does not handle the > combining characters properly. For instance, the sequence of unicode > characters U+0061(a) and U+0308 (combining diacritics) is display as two > characters: a and a square indicating not displayable. The correct result should > be a character identical to U+00E4. > > We are wondering where the normalization is handled in this case, freetype > library or inside imagettftext php function? Is it a bug in freetype library? > If not, how can we fix it? > > Thanks, > > Ziying Sherwin > > P.S. I am not on the mailing list, please send your response to > sherwin@nlm.nih.gov > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >