Re: GD Chinese support - php4.3

but even i tried the hong kong local chinese font, it still display the same thing! -- - Eddy Wong __________________________ inframatrix internet solutions http://www.inframatrix.com/ ¥¿¤KEddy Regular Octa-Eddy ¡@¢¨¡½¢ª¡½¢©¡@ ¢¨¢«¡@¡@¡½¢ª¢© ¡½¡@¡@¡@¡½¡@¡½ ¡½¡½¡½¡@¡½¡@¡½ ¡½¡@¡@¡@¡½¡@¡½ ¢ª¢©¡@¡@¡½¢¨¢« ¡@¢ª¡½¢¨¡½¢«¡@ "Tom Rogers" <trogers@kwikin.com> wrote in message news:1461604176.20030208040432@kwikin.com... > Hi, > > Saturday, February 8, 2003, 3:30:11 AM, you wrote: > ED> any one know how display Chinese Characters (tradition or simplified) in > ED> GD.....? > ED> is that something deal with multibyte functions...? > > ED> i have installed the bundled GD and Libjpeg > ED> they all worked perfectly with english words > > ED> but when i generate a Chinese character, it just display two symbols > ED> i've already set the encoding (of php) to BIG5 > ED> and even i use mb_detect_encoding() it can show "BIG-5" > > ED> but when i use ImageTTFtext(blah blah blah , mb_convert_encoding("[Chinese > ED> word here]","BIG-5") > ED> it pops out 2 symbol > > ED> the ttf font i loaded is the one distributed by Microsoft (HKSCS) > > ED> any php experts know how to solve this problem? > > ED> Thank you all :) > > ED> Regards, > > > ED> Eddy @ Hong Kong > ED> eddy@ifmx.net > > You will probably find the microsoft font is unicode not Big5 > > -- > regards, > Tom >