Re: Sending different languages to GD

Note: I haven't actually ever tried to put non-latin character s in an image, but I think this is the proper thing to do. First of all, I believe imagettftext() accepts string in the UTF-8 encoding. SO, the first thing to try would be to convert to UTF-8l mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8','iso-8859-2'); And, if that doesn't work. Ensure the font you're specifying can handle the characters you're giving it. (Arial Unicode would probably be a safe test font) hope this helped. Chris Graham Anderson wrote:

How can I get Polish , iso-8859-2, text, to output properly ? PHP is reading the accent characters as blocks I tried this, but it did not work... // Set up text for a 'Polish' button $text = "rozwiązania"; $text = mb_convert_encoding($text, "iso-8859-2","Auto"); // Composit the text over a button image and output it imagettftext($im, $fontSize, 0, 11, 16, $white, $font, $text); Ultimately, I want to pass a $language variable to the script to get it to output to any number of supported languages is there a simple function that does this ? many thanks in advance :) g